“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”

“Poverty is a state whose feature is generosity.”

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”

“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.”

“But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.”

“We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.”

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind hope that this obscure force that for so many years had raised him above the daily routine, nourished him unstintingly, and been equal to the most difficult circumstances--that, as it had with endless generosity given him reason to live, it would also give him reason to grow old and die without rebellion.”