There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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

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.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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