“Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”

“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”

“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”

“What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.”

“Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”