C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Philanthropy
When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.
There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.