His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. - James Russell Lowell

Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Among the lessons taught by the French Revolution there is none sadder or more striking than this, that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.