The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Helen Keller, (Jun 27 1880-1968), US author, lecturer; She learned to speak and write despite being blind and deaf; wrote The Story of My Life, 1903.