When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
If a man can beat you, walk him.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.