In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are God's gift to all alike.
~ by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The stripping of pettiness from life in those early days of the war, the sense of unity and mutual help among all sorts and conditions of people, was a thing no one who was in England at that time could ever forget. There was an atmosphere of forgiveness everywhere, that most rare of human qualities...such moments reveal the beauty hidden in the most unlikely persons and affirm the truth, "what a piece of work is man, is woman!"