I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.