Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankinds concern is charity.

The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good.