Benevolence (n.) is egotism when it is without love.
Benevolence (n.) is honored not for its usefulness but as the state of a richer soul able to bestow — look into a benefactor's eyes and you see the antithesis of self-denial.
Benevolence (n.) and cruelty are both ways of exercising power on others; we help those who already depend on us, to increase their power because that increases ours.
Benevolence (n.) is humanity's continual occupation, its light-waves in which everything grows — smiles of the eyes, handclasps — and it has built more culture than pity or self-sacrifice ever did.
Charity (n.) often begins with a clumsy ruse — doctoring the needy into deserving, grateful, submissive possessions; the charitable are jealous if anyone else helps first.
Charity (n.) now outrages the lowly: whoever dribbles like a portly bottle with too narrow a neck gets his neck broken.
Charity (n.) is bracing up Ralph Waldo Emerson's reputation by attributing to him literary mousetraps which he should have made, but didn't. (See Cheese.)
Charity (n.) is not to be judged by its size — The little alms are the best alms.
Consideration (n.) is texting "here" instead of honking.
Consideration (n.) is like a turn signal, costing you nothing and telling everyone else what you mean to do.
Consideration (n.) is the tax the thoughtful pay so the thoughtless can move quickly.
Consideration (n.) is the parent of wisdom
Doing someone a favor (n.) is generosity with a memory.
Doing someone a favor (n.) creates a debt neither party wants to name.
Doing someone a favor (n.) is a gift that comes with a receipt, quietly kept by both parties
Doing someone a favor (n.) is remembered in detail by the one who did it and vaguely by the one it was done for