Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the sl… - Henry Taylor

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

The pretext for indecisiveness is commonly mature deliberation; but in reality indecisive men occupy themselves less in deliberation than others; for to him who fears to decide, deliberation (which has a foretaste of that fear) soon becomes intolerably irksome, and the mind escapes from the anxiety of it into alien themes.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.