The Bostonians1984

Miss Birdseye:
[on Basil] Your cousin looks like a genius, my dear.

Olive Chancellor:
It's only a distant cousin. He's a lawyer from Mississippi, he left his mother and his sisters behind and he's come to try to make his living in New York. He's not in sympathy, I'm afraid.

Miss Birdseye:
Well, I've often found that people are only waiting for the light.