Time and Chance

When you complain that there are too many people, it’s worth remembering that you classify as part of that unfortunate category to someone else

We hang a low ceiling over our imagination, and live the rest of our lives cramped and hunched over.

There are plenty of mistakes you can quietly go about fixing yourself. But when your error involves a promise or expectation given to someone…

Appearances are deceiving. What is concealed is eventually revealed, and your sum total will be a loss of trust.

A fool will fail to grasp social complexities or care about anyone’s feelings except her own. You will find yourself stirring up a storm…

It’s going to get awkward if you assume your neighbor is burying a body when he’s preparing to plant some geraniums.

God pays special regard to life’s “losers.”

Their concept of self appears larger, not smaller, in that they can’t be bothered…to be bothered.

It is not the act of wounding you that qualifies somebody as your friend; rather it is the quality of being your friend that…