May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.