GENEROUS adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence the other from pride or fear.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy– the mother.
The only gift is a portion of thyself … the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb….
As the generation of leaves so is that of men.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
The most melancholy of human reflections perhaps is that on the whole it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
GENEROUS adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Lavishness is not generosity.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
To know when to be generous and when to be firm this is wisdom.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence the other from pride or fear.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.