Giving Pledge

Famous quotes containing the words giving and/or pledge:

“Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

“We should omit a main attraction in these books, if we said nothing of their humor. Of this indispensable pledge of sanity, without some leaven of which the abstruse thinker may justly be suspected of mysticism, fanaticism, or insanity, there is a superabundance in Carlyle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)