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Charity is the perfection and the ornament of religion.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity--we who could no way foresee the effect--when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers down every day His benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

And all the people saw him walking and praising God: / And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode