“If we consider women whose lot it is to inspire deep affection, we shall sometimes find them, not those who can most generously bestow, but those who can most generously receive.”

“I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.”

“Blessings come from a generous heart. Those who give are the most blessed.”

“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”

“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

“The most generous person is the one who offers help to those who do not expect him to help.”

“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.”

“Be praised, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death, from whose embrace no living person can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Happy those she finds doing your most holy will. The second death can do no harm to them.”

“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.”

“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”