Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
I've been offered a peerage already, and turned it down.
I don't really believe in moral victories. You can have them when you're dealing with public opinion, but in litigation, you want to win the case. I want to win.
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.