The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his...
Money often costs too much.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise.
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom...
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and...
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving...
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who...
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Men are what their mothers made them.
I have no hostility to nature but a child's love to it. I expand and live in...
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some...
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of science.
All mankind love a lover.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life and urge doing. I am...
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can...
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that...
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
It is not length of life but depth of life.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long...
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find but symmetrical men...
The search after the great men is the dream of youth and the most serious...
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw...
