A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.