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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

To generous souls every task is noble.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.