The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
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