Man Quotes

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.