Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

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.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.