The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.
The 'average sensual man' who is sometimes unfaithful to his wife, sometimes tipsy, always a little selfish, now and then (within the law) a trifle sharp in his deals, is certainly, by ordinary standards, a 'lower' type than the man whose soul is fil...
This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on matters human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without th...
was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrain...
Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight ...
The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, beca...
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it...
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because t...
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it ...
