"Charity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... police became rough; and in the row that ensued, somebody hurled one of the heavy stone match-safes from a cafe table at one of the policemen, who in his excitement picked it up and hurled it back into the crowd. It struck and injured fatally an innocent outsider, who was taken to the Charity Hospital, in the rue ...
— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith
... whole life, the aggregate sum would probably amount to several hundred dollars. To a labouring man this would be a decent portion for a son or daughter, while the same sum saved by a man in affluent circumstances, would have enabled him, by a contribution to a public charity, to have lessened a large portion of the ignorance or misery of mankind." But Lord Stanhope makes a far more liberal estimate than Dr. Rush; "Every professed, inveterate, and incurable snuff-taker," says he, "at a moderate computation, takes ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... preparing us to find our everlasting happiness in God. (Ethics, c. ii., s. iv., n. 2, p. 22.) The love that we bear to ourselves and our neighbour, in view of our coming from God and going to God, is called the love of charity. Charity differs from philanthropy in looking beyond the present life, and above creatures. A materialist and atheist may possess ...
— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.
... at seeing four great copper heads leaning over him! And, above all, what must he have thought when Captain Nemo, drawing from the pocket of his dress a bag of pearls, placed it in his hand! This munificent charity from the man of the waters to the poor Cingalese was accepted with a trembling hand. His wondering eyes showed that he knew not to what super-human beings he owed ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne
... Charity be a beginner At home? Will they dine there each day, These Lords, on a succulent dinner, Free, gratis, and nothing to pay? Well, well, though we'd rather prefer ships That burst not, we'll take what they give. So we offer our thanks to their Worships ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, October 18, 1890 • Various
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