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.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
We don't even know we are brothers and sisters.
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
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...
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.
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...
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.
Every family's its own trip to China.
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...
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have...
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain cove...
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...
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.