Men Quotes
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.
Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.
Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.
The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.
A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.
Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?
Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.