To buy dear is not bounty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from his high estate.
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted at his utmost need.
But those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ Dryden ]

Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth exposed be lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ John Dryden ]

Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]

Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so. [ William Shakespeare ]

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear.
Your birthday as my own to me is dear.
Blest and distinguish'd days! which we should prize
The first, the kindest bounty of the skies.
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend,
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. [ Martial ]

Bounty may be bounty, and yet not go a-begging for admittance. [ Proverb ]

He does bounty an injury, who shews her so much as to be laughed at. [ Proverb ]

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner it is bestowed. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty, friendship and fidelity may be found. [ Gay ]

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. [ Seneca ]

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

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. [ Thomas Carlyle ]