Man Quotes

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.