Amount Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close…

— Victor Hugo

“The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

— Gustave Flaubert

The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so…

— Lord Chesterfield

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the…

— Honore de Balzac

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of…

— William Herschel

“We are raised from when we are little to be generous and helpful, but the interception of greed in a select few as they…

— Anthony Karakai

“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon