It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after.

The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.

Knowing sorrow well, I learn the way to succor the distressed.