“If any thing of profit should arise from these trifles, the Printer will give it to the Hospital.”

Generosity towards charity · Preface (as quoted in biography)

• Charity
• Generosity
• Profit

“I believe there are few, if any, who enjoy more heartily than I do the best poetry of my contemporaries, or who have commended them both in private and in public with less parsimony and reserve.”

Declaring an open-handed love for the poetry of his fellow writers · Imaginary Conversations

• Generosity
• Poetry
• Praise

“The life of service; the life of unselfish giving — this must Livingstone's life mean to us.”

Holding up David Livingstone as a model of altruism · Essay or speech (commonly attributed)

• Generosity
• Inspiration
• Service

“The people there were hospitable, warm-hearted and generous beyond any people I have known, and full of the will to live.”

Expresses deep affection for the people and culture of the Illinois countryside of his youth · The Sangamon

• Community
• Generosity
• Life

“You can at least be happy in the thought that you have tried to do something for another.”

Valuing compassionate action even when its eventual outcome cannot be guaranteed · Prose memoir, Making the House a Home, 1922

• Compassion
• Generosity
• Happiness

“My motto has always been 'Give, give, give.”

Expressing his ideal of generosity towards others · The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas, 1929

• Care
• Generosity

“My money is not yet exhausted, and I want you to tell me if you have any object to promote before it is all gone.”

A vivid example of her determination to use her remaining resources for others · Letter to Alicia Mason, 22 April 1845

• Care
• Generosity
• Kindness