I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to an...
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
Frank: I never want to see another blueberry pie. I never even want to hear those words. Don't say those words Ed! Don't say those words...
The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an e...
By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I ...
I am not going to pretend to write a love letter to another man.
Never bet your money on another man's game.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
