Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess.
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever. . . Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.
Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth. . .
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.