Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

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.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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.

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.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. read more

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality read more

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.