You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Foreign aid: when the poor people of a rich nation send their money to the rich people of a poor nation.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does more good or harm.