"Non aver tema, disse il mio Signore:
Fatti sicur, chè noi siamo a buon punto:
Non stringer, ma rallarga ogni vigore."
Purgatorio, Canto 9, v. 46-48.
"'I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me.'
"'What is that?'said Will.…
"'That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.'"—Middlemarch, Book iv.
