A Gift (n.) given entirely gratis — unlike the pawnshop's six percent, or the usury many a rich man takes on a gift — leaves the poor woman feeling her benefactor was more unfortunate than she.
A Gift (n.) grows with the giver's poverty, not his wealth: the rich man's hundred dollars obscures the poor man's last shilling, though the one who gives less obscures the one who gives most — a reckoning found in no arithmetic.
A Gift (n.) carries guilt: whoever claims to be more eminently gifted must accept being held more guilty than other men.
Gift (n.) from God in the deepest sense are not food and clothing but every prompting of the Spirit and every godly longing, for in these God gives himself, and these are what men waste.
A Gift (n.) from a man goes out in the dark: glad because it is good, sorry because he cannot know whether it will be good for the other.
A Gift (n.) from a niggardly heart is given with one eye while seven eyes watch for the return.
The Gift (n.) that is extraordinary comes like a father's: take it, it is yours, but if you will not use it obediently it will smash you.