Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

The deed is everything, the glory naught.