Character Quote by Garth Nix

Charity is the root of all good works.

— Saint Augustine

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

— Margaret Sanger

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

— Joseph Addison

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

— Henry Ford

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than…

— Samuel Johnson

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

— Emanuel Swedenborg

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

— Ayn Rand

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so…

— Confucius

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

— Thomas Aquinas

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda