“Nothing divides one so much as thought.”

“For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.”

“it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing, but contemplate the rain”

“If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.”

“It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.”

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”