If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
One ought to be just before one is generous
The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.
I have never seen a generous man go bankrupt.
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.
If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.
We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Elizabeth. . . had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
A generous figure is always nice.
We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.
How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.