Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Phillips Brooks
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea Ballou
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London
In charity there is no excess.
Sir Francis Bacon
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
William Hutton
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give, I give myself.
Walt Whitman
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
Sir Thomas Browne
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher