As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”
“It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it”
“Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.”
“My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?”
“There is no real force without justice.”
“Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.”
“Rich people are poor people with money.”
“Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.”