Roger L'Estrange

“ There are Cases, wherein our Very Tenderness, and Charity, becomes a Snare to us, and there are People too, that fancy No Blood so sweet, as That of the Person to whom they stand Indebted for their Lives and Fortunes: But then if One Man should Cease to be Generous, and Charitable, because Another Man is Sordid, and Ungrateful. ”

“ There are, ’tis true, some People so Harden’d in Wickedness, as to have No Sense at all of the most Friendly Offices, or the Highest Benefits. Now in These Desperate Cases, a Man is little Better then Felo-de-se, that for the Helping of Another Ventures the Undoing of Himself. Nay, and ’tis somewhat more then a Venture too, when a Mouse lays it self at the Mercy of a Kite. ”