Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public.
I dislike the trait of ungratefulness.
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
