Giving is true having. [ Spurgeon ]

Amid life's quests
That seems but worthy one -
to do men good. [ Bailey ]

Learn the luxury of doing good. [ Goldsmith ]

Try to be of some use to others. [ Bishop Hall ]

Honor the Lord with thy substance.

Benevolent people are always cheerful. [ Father Taylor ]

Rare benevolence, the minister of God. [ Carlyle ]

A noble deed is a step towards heaven. [ J. G. Holland ]

Generosity is only benevolence in practice. [ Bishop Ken ]

Our opportunities to do good are our talents. [ Dr. Mather ]

Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. [ Spurgeon ]

A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Be charitable before wealth maket thee covetous. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Grasp the whole worlds of reason, lip and sense,
In one close system of benevolence. [ Pope ]

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. [ Milton, Paradise Lost ]

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifice to God. [ Aristotle ]

Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good. [ Rowe ]

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. [ Seneca ]

When my friends are one-eyed, I look at their profile. [ Joubert ]

The more we give to others, the more are we increased. [ Lao-Tze ]

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. [ Beecher ]

Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man. [ Mencues ]

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. [ Thackeray ]

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [ Seneca ]

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment [ Cicero ]

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. [ W. R. Alger ]

It is in contemplating man at a distance that we become benevolent. [ Buiwer-Lytton ]

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means. [ Cicero ]

The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribe. [ Dryden ]

He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [ Lucan ]

Liberality consists less in giving profusely than in giving judiciously. [ Bruygre ]

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

And chiefly for the weaker by the wall, You bore that lamp of sane benevolence. [ Meredith ]

Benevolence rejuvenates the heart, exercise, the memory, and remembrance, life. [ Mme. de Lespinasse ]

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate. [ Du Cceur ]

Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It goeth about doing good. [ Nevins ]

You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence. [ Sydney Smith ]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. [ Cicero ]

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! [ Hosea Ballou ]

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. [ Mencius ]

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall. [ Goethe ]

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair. [ Omar Khayam ]

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. [ Joubert ]

Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others. [ Virgil ]

For his bounty, there was no winter in it; an autumn it was that grew the more by reaping. [ William Shakespeare ]

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [ Seneca ]

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. [ Colton ]

While Selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues. Benevolence is allied to them all. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

There is no use or money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows upon reflection. [ Mackenzie ]

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. [ Lamb ]

The best portion of a good man's life, -- his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. [ William Wordsworth ]

There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. [ Emerson ]

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [ Sallust ]

Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in so distinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence.

Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity. [ Quarles ]

If you realize an incentive to do a good thing, an act of benevolence, do it at once; do not put it off until tomorrow. [ Henry Home ]

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatters favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. [ Saadi ]

Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. [ Ruffini ]

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence in some people are like those minute-guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them. [ Frederick Saunders ]

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. [ Horace Mann ]

The little mind who loves itself will write and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. [ Goldsmith ]

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be. so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. [ Horace Greeley ]

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]