"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them."
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"Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery."
"Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."
"To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]"
"It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise."
"The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving."
"He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe."
"Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune."
"One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you."
"I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live."
"The future of marketing is philanthropy."
"Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective."
"When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?"
"The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end."