As earth blesses her smallest creatures with her smile, so should love devote itself to those less worthy beings who may be ennobled by it.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Dinah Morris-the youthful preacher, whose eloquence is but the natural, almost involuntary manifestation in words, of a beautiful soul; whose spring of love is so abundant that it overflows the narrow limits of private affection, and blesses multitudes of toiling, suffering men and women with its wealth of pity, hope, and sympathy-was a new creation in the world of fiction.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
They are not thieves, nor avaricious, but religious men practising self-denial, who collect alms merely to support life, and believe that money so bestowed blesses the giver.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch