Serious Harm, I Am Afraid,

My Life Has Been Happy Because I Have Had Wonderful Friends And Plenty Of Interesting Work To Do.

The Human Being Is Born With An Incurable Capacity For Making The Best Of Things.

The Worst Calamity: 'to Have Eyes And Fail To See.'

In A Word, Literature Is My Utopia. Here I Am Not Disfranchised. No Barrier Of The Senses Shuts Me Out From The Sweet, Gracious Discourse Of My Book-friends. They Talk To Me Without Embarrassment Or Awkwardness. The Things I Have Learned And The Things I Have Been Taught Seem Of Ridiculously Little Importance Compared With Their "large Loves And Heavenly Charities.

Be Happy, Talk Happiness. Happiness Calls Out Responsive Gladness In Others. There Is Enough Sadness In The World Without Yours.