“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

“Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.”

SIGURD. Man's will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives—so has it gone with us twain.

“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Man is what he believes.

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar” 

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” 

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams” 

“They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn” 

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”