The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

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.

The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Death is the looking-glass of life wherein
Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.

Cynical bastard, aren't you?"
"Every man is a mirror," Nozawa said flatly. "We all reflect what we see.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often — he searched for a simile, found one in his work — torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

I glance reflections of my face everyplace I go, in my mirror and in shop windows, like the lead in my own show. Do I dare look closely? See each wrinkle, scar and flaw?

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.