Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Oh, wise young judge.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Death is too much to ask of the living.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!