Libby

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Confucius stays within the secular sphere of individual, society, government, and history, rarely and tentatively venturing into matter known in other cultures as religious.”
― Confucius, The Analects: Conclusions and Conversations of Confucius