More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Trust not thy feeling, for whatever it be now, it will quickly be changed.

Trust not thy feeling, for whatever it be now, it will quickly be changed.

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation read more

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is read more

Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for read more

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either