PHILANTHROPY

Related Subjects: Benevolence, Brotherhood, Charity, Gifts, Help, Kindness, Patronage

1. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.—ADDISON, The Guardian
   

2. There are, while human miseries abound,
   A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
   Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
   Without one hour of sickness or disgust.—JOHN ARMSTRONG, Art of Preserving Health
   

3. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.—Bible, Job 29:15
   

4. However, while I crawl upon this planet, I think myself obliged to do what good I can in my narrow domestic sphere, to all my fellow-creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do.—LORD CHESTERFIELD
   

5. In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellowmen.—CICERO, Pro Ligario
   

6. Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail:
   But common interest always will prevail;
   And pity never ceases to be shown
   To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

7. I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.—EMERSON, Essays
   

8. It is easy to live for others; everybody does.—EMERSON, Journals
   

9. I love my country better than my family, but I love human nature better than my country.—FENELON, Telemaque
   

10. The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.—FRANKLIN, Autobiography
    

11. A kind and gentle heart he had,
    To comfort friends and foes;
    The naked every day he clad,
    When he put on his clothes.—GOLDSMITH, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
    

12. He held his seat; a friend to human race.—HOMER, Iliad
    

13. "I pray thee, then,
    Write me as one that loves his fellow men."—LEIGH HUNT, Abou Ben Adhem
    

14. He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.—DOUGLAS JERROLD, Douglas Jerrold's Wit
    

15. Officious, innocent, sincere,
    Of every friendless name the friend.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet

16. For his bounty
    There was no winter in 't; an autumn 'twas
    That grew the more by reaping.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

17. Feel for others—in your pocket.—C. H. SPURGEON, Salt-Cellars
    

18. Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.—THOREAU, Walden
    

19. As for doing good, that is one of the professions that are full.—THOREAU, Walden
    

20. Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow-creatures.—OSCAR WILDE, An Ideal Husband
    

21. Philanthropists don't give their lives, they give their names—they have them carved in stone over their institutes and libraries.—JESSIE L. WILLIAMS, Why Marry!'
    

22. For thou wert still the poor man's stay,
    The poor man's heart, the poor man's hand;
    And all the oppressed, who wanted strength,
    Had thine at their command.—WORDSWORTH, Rob Roy's Grave