Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.


Country Living and Country Thinking, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.