This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.