Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. . . Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. Footnote: Carlyle says, in his History of Frederick the Great, book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, 'that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice,' is still remembered by mankind, - this and no other of his many sayings.
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.