Man Quotes

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

Only the man who says no is free

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.