"Philanthropy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the ex-president pondered the past, and looked forward to the future. His correspondence in the dignified retirement of his later years is most instructive, showing great interest in education and philanthropy. He was remarkably blessed in his family and in all his domestic matters,—the founder of an illustrious house, eminent for four successive generations. His wife, who died in 1818, was one of the most remarkable women of the age,—his companion, his friend, and ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord
... coarse jerkin on the broad back of the industrious toilsman. And according to this whimsical belief, he writes and talks jocosely, but with covert common sense. His warm and catholic humanity runs up and down the whole social scale with a clear-sighted equity. His philanthropy is what the word literally signifies,—the love of man as man, and because he is a man. Without being an impracticable fanatic, advocating impossible theories, or theories that can grow into realities only with the gradual progress of the race,—without indulging ...
— The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 • Various
... the secret of your wonderful interest in Israel Kafka's welfare. I always like to follow the workings of a brain essentially different from my own, philanthropic, of course. How could it be anything else? Philanthropy deals with a class of ideas wholly unfamiliar to me. I shall learn much ...
— The Witch of Prague • F. Marion Crawford
... the oldest Paris night refuges, which are the outcome of private philanthropy—L'Oeuvre de l'Hospitalite de Nuit— have only been in existence some fourteen or fifteen years. Before that time, and from the period of the great Revolution forward, there was absolutely no place, ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... only specimens of the way in which Jasmin was received during his missions of philanthropy. He went from north to south, from east to west, by river and by road, sleeping where he could, but always happy and cheerful, doing his noble work with a full and joyous heart. He chirruped and sang ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles
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