“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
