A Quote by Theodore Parker
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.
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