He studied these attentively for a few moments, then put them back where his wife had placed them and went on speaking.
"I am satisfied on the whole.

He needed a friendly voice to penetrate the darkness.

He needed a hand to grasp his, in faithful comprehension.
He did not want pity, and those who talked of his loss without understanding it, or being able to measure its immensity, maddened him.
He needed a fellow-man to come to him and say: 'It is a fight--an awful, desperate fight.

But by God's grace you will win through to victory.

It would be far easier to die; but to die would be to lose; you must live to win.