Chacun chez soi, chacun pour soi. — Selfishness

"A man as he goes down in self, goes up in God. It is interesting to trace this in the experience of the apostle Paul, as gathered from his Epistles. In the year of our Lord 59, he is the least of the apostles, and not f1t to be called an apostle, because he persecuted the church of God. In the year of our Lord 64, after four years more of growth in grace, he is "less than the least of all saints." But in the year of our Lord 65, and not long before he was about to receive his crown in heaven, he is "the chief of sinners."

"Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous."

"Selfishness is the making a mans self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doth."

"What need we any spur but our own cause, To prick us to redress?"

"The most terrible thing is to develop in a child selfishness and stinginess, as these vices will limit the growth of a childs mind."

"Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy."