No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.