He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
ATTRIBUTION:
Olympia Brown (18351900), U.S. minister, first woman ordained in U.S. sermon, c. Jan. 13, 1895, Mukwonago, Wisconsin; repr. In Annual Journal of the Universalist Historical Society, vol. 4 (1963). Olympia Brown, An Autobiography, ed. Gwendolen B. Willis (1960).