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.

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.

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

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.

The more he cast away the more he had.

The more he cast away the more he had.

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.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should read more

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful read more

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.