Too many have dispensed¹ with generosity² in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance³; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference⁴; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfour

The living need charity more than the dead.

George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue⁵ (1866)

Charity sees the need not the cause.

German Proverb

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.

Jack⁶ London (1876 - 1916)

In charity there is no excess.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous⁷.

Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)

Charity begins at home.

Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Andria

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation⁸.

William Hutton