Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. - George Eliot

"A child, more than all other gifts
That earth can offer to declining man,
Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." — WORDSWORTH.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.