Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.