The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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