He's in delicate health.

Ah--of course, you know, it is natural for me to wish his influence with the Council were much less than it is." "Indeed! He was spoken of as a philanthropist." "It's a very poor love to one's fellow-man that gives him all that his vanity desires in the way of knowledge without leading him into the Church, where he would be taught to set the value of everything in its right proportion." I was rather struck with this view of the function of the Church.
"Certainly," I replied, "to see all things in right proportion is wisdom; but I heard this Toyner mentioned as a religious man." "He has some imaginations of his own, I believe, which he mistakes for religion.

I do not know him intimately; I do not wish to.

I believe he has some sort of desire to do what is right; but that, you know, is a house built upon the sand, unless it is founded upon the desire for instruction as to what _is_ right.

Every one cries up his generosity; for instance, one of my church-wardens tells him that we need a new organ in the church and the people won't give a penny-piece towards it, so Toyner says, with his benevolent smile, 'They must be taught to give.
Tell them I will give half if they will give the other half.' But if the Roman Catholic priest or a Methodist goes to him the next day for a subscription, he gives just as willingly if, as is likely, he thinks the object good.