Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.