A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove … - Henry Fielding

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.

Henry Fielding

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Difficult, Fool, Inspiring, Men, Rogue, Would Be

Same Author Quotes

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

Honor, Incapable, Inclines, Men, Mind, Ruin

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

Assistance, Insult, Sister, Support, Vices, Women

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Blessing, Blessing To Others, Charity, Nothing, Riches

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.

Book, Example, Mind, Observation, True, Work

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Bear, Bears, Bestow, Deserve, Insolence, Literature

Similar Quotes

George Lucas

Believed, Important, Lifetime, Set, Stars, War

Swami Vivekananda

An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.

Greater, Heart, Inspiration, Instrument, Intellectual, Men

Catherynne M. Valente

Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

Ambition, Generous, Sadness, Sight, Together, Whiskey

Cormac McCarthy

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

Business, Friendo, Toss

Laura Ingalls Wilder

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

Animal, Animals, Feds, Men, Pasture, Stretched