In charity there is no excess.

A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowe…

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a contine…

Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.

Generosity: 'Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.'

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Avoid cruelty and injustice for, on the Day of Judgment, the same will turn into several darknesses; and guard yourselves against miserliness; for this has rui…