The living need charity more than the dead.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

Charity is the scope of all God's commands.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.

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.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.