I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.
Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate.
Every family's its own trip to China.
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange sense...
The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.
The greatest grace shall be harmony in human relations.
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our c...
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignific...
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts...