“Your wisdom should be without pride.”

“The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.”

“When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:The same as you do when you infest the whole world;but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.”

“How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.”

“By and by never comes.”

“Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?”

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

“Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.”

“What is the city but the people?”

“A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.”

“Live, let live, and help live”

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”

“Every time we do something #‎ GOOD . We #‎ RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the #‎ REVERSE is just as #‎ TRUE .”

“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”

“A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.”

“We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.”

“What e'er thou art, act well thy part.”

“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.”