ify God,
and to do good to others.--_Cruden._

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the
uncharitable.--_Buckminster._

The charities that soothe, and heat, and bless, lie scattered at the
feet of men like flowers.--_Wordsworth._

Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of his
palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.--_Koran._

Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, we who could no way
foresee the effect,--when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers down
every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?--_Atterbury._

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.--_Victor Hugo._

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from
ourselves: what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as
our nearest relations.--_Atterbury._

Goodness answers to the theological virtue of charity, and admits no
excess but error; the desire of power in excess caused the angels to
fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in
charity there is no excess: neither can angel or man come into danger by
it.--_Bacon._

Poplicola's doors were opened on the outside, to save the people even
the common civility of asking entrance; where misfortune was a powerful
recommendation, and where want itself was a powerful
mediator.--_Dryden._

When thy brother has lost all that he ever had, and lies languishing,
and even gasping under the utmost extremities of poverty and distress,
dost thou think to lick him whole again only with thy tongue?--_South._

What we frankly give, forever is our own.--_Granville._

Faith and hope themselves shall die, while deathless charity
remains.--_Prior._

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.--_Professor
Vinet._

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money;
and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draftment upon heaven
for those who choose to have their money placed to account
there.--_Mackenzie._

~Chastity.~--Chastity enables the soul to breathe a pure air in the
foulest places; continence makes her strong, no matter in what condition
the body may be; her sway over the senses makes her queenly; her light
and peace render her beautiful.--_Joubert._

~Cheerfulness.~--Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has
been called the bright weather of the heart.--_Samuel Smiles._

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set