"I see no fault committed," said Goethe, "which I also might not have committed." So a wise and good man exclaimed, when he saw a criminal drawn on his hurdle to Tyburn: "There goes Jonathan Bradford--but for the grace of God!" Life will always be, to a great extent, what we ourselves make it.

The cheerful man makes a cheerful world, the gloomy man a gloomy one.

We usually find but our own temperament reflected in the dispositions of those about us.

If we are ourselves querulous, we will find them so; if we are unforgiving and uncharitable to them, they will be the same to us.

A person returning from an evening party not long ago, complained to a policeman on his beat that an ill-looking fellow was following him: it turned out to be only his own shadow! And such usually is human life to each of us; it is, for the most part, but the reflection of ourselves.
If we would be at peace with others, and ensure their respect, we must have regard for their personality.