"The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind." ― Washington Irving Topic(s): Sympathy More From Washington Irving "Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home." "Great minds have purposes; others have wishes." "The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem." More In Sympathy "We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."― Richard M. Nixon "And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."― Walt Whitman "It’s no good being nice and young and naive. There’s no good in that at all. You’ve got to do it all yourself, and you’ve gotta learn quick. And you can’t look for sympathy either."― Johnny Rotten