Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.