Improve the rich as well as the poor.

Teach 'em to be human beings, not machines, to one another--that's Gideon's idea, you know,--humanize--Christianize, if you like it better--civilize.

It's a pretty hopeless problem--the individual case--charity is all rotten from root to branch.

If you could see the harm that's been done by mistaken charity! Why, look at my friend, Mrs.
Page, now.

She tried to work it out that way, and what came of it except more rottenness?
And yet until the State looks after the unemployed, there is obliged to be charity." "Do you mean Mrs.Kent Page ?" asked Stephen in surprise, and remembered that his mother had once accused Corinna of trying to "undermine society." "She is one of my best friends," answered the old man, with mingled pride and affection.