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

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

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

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.