Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

There comes
For ever something between us and what
We deem our happiness.

There comes
For ever something between us and what
We deem our happiness.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his read more

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

. . . all who joy would win
Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.

. . . all who joy would win
Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.

Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.

Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the read more

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . read more

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.