What can I but enumerate old themes?
“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
“A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.”
“Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.”
“Writing a novel is agony.”
“Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.”
“One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.”
“Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.”
“Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.”