If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor?
The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.
When a man says yes, his chi [personal god] says yes also.
Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.
A man cannot be a good physician if he has never been sick himself.
If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness.
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials.
A mans greatest shortcoming is that he neglects his own field and weeds that of others.
If a man becomes powerful even his chicken and his dog go to heaven.
The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
