Man Quotes

To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

I never met a man I didn’t like.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.