Truth, Justice, Pity.

They are the strong things, the eternal things, the things we've got to sacrifice ourselves for--serve with our bodies and our souls.
"Don't think me a prig," she pleaded.

"I'm talking as if I knew all about it.

I don't really.

I grope in the dark; and now and then--at least so it seems to me--I catch a glint of light.