Generosity:

1. Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

2. The more he cast away the more he had.
-- John Bunyan
1628-1688, British Author

3. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
-- George Bush
1924-, Forty-first President of the USA

4. Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
-- Barry Duncan

5. It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

6. To generous souls every task is noble.
-- Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

7. Lavishness is not generosity.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

8. Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
-- Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist