A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Man, all lives matter.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.