You'll be coming home _eploree_, as they say here.

I hope you'll grow stronger in that respect.

One has to harden one's heart a little." "I know it is wiser to do so." "Of course! It's not only that you are constantly imposed upon; the indulgence of universal sympathy is incompatible with duty to one's self--unless you become at once a sister of mercy.

One is bound, in common sense, to close eyes and ears against all but a trifling fraction of human misery.

Why, look, we sit here, and laugh and talk and enjoy ourselves; yet at this instant what horrors are being enacted in every part of the world! Men are perishing by every conceivable form of cruelty and natural anguish.