Famous Quotes | Give nobly to indigent merit,...
Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. Letter, undated, Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son and Others, p. 306, London, Dent (1796). Written to his godson Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl (1755-1815), a distant relative of Chesterfield’s, who eventually became his heir and successor; the letter included instructions that it be delivered to the godson after Chesterfield’s death.
Categories: Charity, Man Of Letters, Statesman
