We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering. - Helen Keller

¿Os habéis encontrado alguna vez en el mar, en medio de una espesa niebla, que parece un crepúsculo blanquecino, que os envuelve y se hace casi tangible? El buque parece entonces intranquilo, mientras que la sonda va a tientas buscándole un camino, y el pasajero se siente presa de horrible angustia. Como aquel buque avanzaba yo en la vida, antes de que principiase mi educación; pero yo carecía de sonda, de brújula y de todo medio de darme cuenta de la proximidad del puerto. ¡Luz, dadme luz! era el grito inarticulado de mi alma, y la luz del amor me iluminó en esa hora.

Thus it is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations to beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

The idea of brotherhood redawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed; and thinkers of great soul like Lessing challenge the world to say which is more godlike, the hatred and tooth-and-nail grapple of conflicting religions, or sweet accord and mutual helpfulness. Ancient prejudice of man against his brother-man wavers and retreats before the radiance of a more generous sentiment, which will not sacrifice men to forms, or rob them of the comfort and strength they find in their own beliefs. The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.