To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.