"We can become like God -- only in proportion as we are of use," said -- -. "I did not see this once. I tried to be good, not knowing what good meant. I tried to be good, because I thought it would pay me in the world to come. But at last I saw that all life, all devotion, all piety, were only worth anything, only Divine, and God-like and God-beloved, as they were means to that one end -- to be of use."

Two Years Ago, chap. xix. 1856.