Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.

Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, / And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.