It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed. – Bible

To generous souls every task is noble. – Euripides

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of ones self to others. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin