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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?