As we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become

... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

The closing of Good Hope's emergency room and its inpatient psychiatric unit presented us with a real crisis.