“Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.”

“Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.”

“My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more.”

“But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?”

“A man should never make a fortune while another man starves.”

“Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?”