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.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just read more

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

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.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

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.