Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

—Clare Booth Luce

No good deed goes unpunished.

—Clare Booth Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

—Clare Booth Luce

The charitable acts that count the most are those done without anyone knowing.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Perfect Couple

The more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

—David Graeber

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

—William Hutton

Charity begins at home.

—Terence

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

—Thomas Browne