“Live within your income, and…do not refuse to dip your hand into your pocket to satisfy a generous impulse, or to help in the mutual enjoyment of yourself and your friends, because you think you will be the richer for keeping your money…
Of your natural gifts you can never give enough…If you are not generous to your employers and to your friends and family, they will not be generous to you. They will reward you, too, in a grudging spirit.
Man, who is made in the likeness of his Creator, should give greatly of his own gifts, rendering back to the Great Bestower the munificence that is given in trust…
No money can buy gratitude and love and true friendship. These are the things that inevitably come from real generosity, and each one of us, within the limits of our own minds and purses, can be generous…”
Keith J. Thomas Personal Power (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1914) 157-159.