Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people's labor.

Charity is the most mischievous sort of pruriency.

No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespear.

In my childhood I demurred to the description of a certain young lady as "the pretty Miss So and So." My aunt rebuked me by saying "Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty."

The right to live is abused whenever it is not constantly challenged.

All men mean well.

The Master of Arts, by proving that no man has any natural rights, compels himself to take his own for granted.