Henry David Thoreau Generosity Quotations

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.