When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.—Henry Taylor.
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.—Lavater.
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.—Duncan.
In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.—George Macdonald.
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.—Beveridge.
A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.—Spurgeon.
Genius.—Genius is an immense capacity for taking trouble.—Carlyle.
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.—Lavater.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has but one talent for a genius.—Helps.
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.—Ouida.