All talk of practicing Christianity, or even bare justice, is at present mere waste of words.

How can you justly reward the laborer when you cannot ascertain the value of what he makes, owing to the prevalent custom of stealing it?
I know this by experience.

I wanted to pay a just price for my wife's tomb, but I could not find out its value, and never shall.

The principle on which we farm out our national industry to private marauders, who recompense themselves by black-mail, so corrupts and paralyzes us that we cannot be honest even when we want to.

And the reason we bear it so calmly is that very few of us really want to." "I must study this question of value," said Sir Charles dubiously, refilling his goblet.