But, my dear Sybil, I will do my best to explain to you what I mean, especially as at your age you are not likely to discover the truth for yourself.

In the first place, charity of any sort is the most insidious destroyer of moral character which the world has ever known.

The man who once accepts it, even in extremes, imbibes a poison from which his system can never be thoroughly cleansed.

You let him loose upon society, and the evil which you have sown in him spreads.

He is like a man with an infectious disease.