"Charity may be compared to gold, the most precious of all metals, which adorns and beautifies everything that is richest upon earth.  Charity is the ornament and adornment of all other virtues.  The least little action accompanied with meekness and humility and charity of heart, is of more value and far surpasses anything that we can imagine."
"If I should ask, what is Charity?  the answer is , it is a virtue that comes to us from heaven, by which we love God with our whole heart, and our neighbor as ourselves, for the love of God."   - St. John Vianney, Sermon on Charity