How easily, when Caius sees Cnejus lavish gold where silver or copper would serve, he thinks of Martial's apt words: 'Who gives great gifts, expects great gifts again.'-- [Martial, Epigram 5, 59, 3.]--Do not misunderstand me.
What could yonder poor thing bestow that would please even a groom?
But the eyes of suspicion scan even the past.

I have often seen you open your purse, friend Lienhard, and this is right.

Whoever hath ought to give, and my dead mother used to say that: 'No one ever became a beggar by giving at the proper time.'" "And life is gladdened by what one gives to another," remarked Conrad Peutinger, the learned Augsburg city clerk, who valued his Padua title of doctor more than that of an imperial councillor.

"It applies to all departments.

Don't allow yourself to regret your generosity, friend Lienhard.