“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
“I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.”
“A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned”
“What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.”
“Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no further than mediocrity.”