The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat. , Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri. ]
The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
It is characteristic of the barbarian. . . to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is. " The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.
The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
