No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they read more

No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the read more

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any
human being, and even compassionating those who read more

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any
human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage
their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was read more

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.