It is happiness to look at it; it thrills, bewitches, enthralls!...

Dear, forgive me if in it I have not yet found a deeper inspiration....

And that inspiration, to be there, must be first in you, my darling--born of a wider interest in your fellow men, a little tenderness for friends--a more generous experience and more real sympathy with humanity--and perhaps you may think it out of place for me to say it--but--a deeper, truer, spiritual conviction.
"Do you think it strange of me to have such convictions?
I can't escape them.

Those who are merciful, those who are kind, to me are Christ-like.
Nothing else matters.

But to be kind is to be first of all interested in the happiness of others.