Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends…

I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the…

— Shirley Jackson

“Things stood still, not a leaf trembled on the branches, while the sky slowly lost its color and became an expanse that looked like…

— Ayn Rand

Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain…

— Ann Wroe

Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs…

— Bill Vaughan

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested…

— Saint Augustine

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the…

— John Quincy Adams

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

— Charles Darwin

“Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the…

— Maimonides

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

— Moses Mendelssohn

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man…

— H. P. Blavatsky

That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up…

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

— Henry David Thoreau

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

— Thomas Paine

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams