"The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together. Though I care little about riches as any man, I am a friend to riches because they are capable of good............But it is impossible to enjoy affluence with the felicity it is capable of being enjoyed, while so much misery is mingled in the scene. The sight of the misery, and the unpleasant sensations it suggests, which, though they may be suffocated cannot be extinguished, are a greater drawback upon the felicity of affluence than the proposed ten percent upon property is worth. He that would not give the one to get rid of the other has no charity even for himself."