There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Hopeless, filthy, degraded, superstitious with the craven superstition which made them the easy prey of their unscrupulous clergy and left them wholly sensual and stupid; as animals, without the animals' instinctive joy of life and fearlessness of the morrow ; with no ambitions for themselves or the children who turned to curse them for having brought them into such a world; with no time to dream or love, no time for the tenderness which makes life, life indeed — they toiled for a few cruel years because they feared to die, and died because they feared to live. Such were the people Turgot was sent to redeem.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.