Attorney Michael Eramo has long believed in the rewards of charity and fellowship.

With every new client that retains the Law Offices of Michael Eramo, P.C. for legal services, our office makes a donation on behalf of our client to one of the following charities:

Noteable quotes about charity:

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves."
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD
American author
(1802 - 1880)

"I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied as to do the most good of which it is capable."
- Thomas Jefferson

"There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world." Oscar Hammerstein II

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver." Maya Angelou

"You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you." John Bunyan

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

"I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good things I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer it or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." William Penn

"The happiest people are those who care more about others than they do about themselves." Ted Turner

"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses." Chinese proverb

"To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity." Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

"It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will some day give shade to people he may never meet." David Trueblood

"In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern." Douglas Lawson

"What is the use of living, if it not be to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?" Sir Winston Churchill

"Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause." Marilyn Vos Savant

"Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth." Jerold Panas

"No person has ever been honored for what he received. Honor is our reward when we give." Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933

"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and serve." Sir Wilfred T. Grinfell

"No one has ever become poor by giving." Anne Frank

"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Bible, Matthew 6:20,21

"Giving is more a dictate of the heart than a command of the brain." Henry A. Rosso

"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." Danny Thomas

"Donors don't give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe." G.T. Smith

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau

"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself
is to help others." - Elbert Hubbard

"The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry man; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the man who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the man who has none; the money which you hoard in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help." St. Basil the Great

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain