--CUMBERLAND.
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of
mischief.--WASHINGTON.
GENEROSITY.--All my experience of the world teaches me that in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of
a question is the generous side and the merciful side.--MRS. JAMESON.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without
generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.--HENRY
TAYLOR.
Generosity is only benevolence in practice.--BISHOP KEN.
The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribe.
--DRYDEN.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must
be by what he gives.--SOUTH.
Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than to
pay debts.--SIR P. SIDNEY.
When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you
deny yourself something in order that you may give.--HENRY TAYLOR.
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous,
may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.--LAVATER.
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others
share their happiness with them.--DUNCAN.
In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in
proportion to the worth of the thing given.--GEORGE MACDONALD.
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to
proportion His blessings to our alms.--BEVERIDGE.
A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his
simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother
to a beggar.
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