"The objects of benevolence are all around us." "Show me a worthy object, and you will find me ready to relieve it," returned the merchant.

"I am not so selfish as to be indifferent to human suffering.

But I think it wrong to encourage idleness and vice; and for this reason, I never give unless I am certain that the object who presents himself is worthy." "True benevolence does not always require us to give alms," said the Friend.

"We may do much to aid, comfort and help on with their burdens our fellow travellers, and yet not bestow upon them what is called charity.

Mere alms-giving, as thee has intimated, but too often encourages vice and idleness.