“I think a person may, by thought, encourage and develop congeniality. Great men, endowed with high powers of imagination, and large and affectionate sympathies, suffer much less from the real or supposed uncongeniality of those who surround them, than other and commoner people do. It is the narrow-minded fastidious person who suffers most from uncongeniality. A Mirabeau, an Alcibiades, a Bacon, a Shakespeare, finds something congenial to him in all those with whom he associates. Depend upon it, when you find persons difficlut to live with, and thoroughly uncongenial to you, it is that you have failed to discover, and to appeal to those primeval and better elements of their character, which would yield pleasant fruits to an intelligent cultivation of congeniality on your part.”
A. HELPS
“With every person he met he instinctively struck some point of contact, found something to appreciate, often it might be some information to ask for, which left the other cheered, self-respected, raised for the moment above himself.”
From Life of C. Kingsley
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