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

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.