“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
“One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.”
“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so we can see life with a clearer view again.”