“Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.”
“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”
“Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. ”