Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Philanthropy

• To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Littles, Succeed, Philanthropy

• Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Charity, Appreciated

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.121

• If you give money, spend yourself with it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Giving, Charity

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.119

• Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Kitchen, Charity

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.49, Courier Corporation

• I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Genius, Charity, May

• The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Grief, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

• The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Spiritual, Uncles

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin

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