Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.
Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.
I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.
Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!
Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.
Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e. g. , the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.
There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He. . . or she. . . is cut short before he. . . or she. . . can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.
A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.
Let us see God before man every day.
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
Communication is the most important single activity of man.
People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.
Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.
Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.
