“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”

“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

“We are so fond of being out in Nature because it has no opinions of us.”

“Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make.”

“we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”

“When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.”

“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”