Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey!

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

In case you ever foolishly forget:
I am never not thinking of you.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.