Men Quotes
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
