Henry Fielding Quotes

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

I'm not selfish at all.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

His designs are most philanthropic and are amongst the few schemes of the kind … free from any selfish commercial or political object.

The major forces in human nature: self interest and caring for others

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

While Pop lived his life in comfort, he was always generous to the less fortunate.

Wealth and compassion are opposites.

I'm not a selfish person, I don't think.

I am not selfish.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.