Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
A great man is always willing to be little.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.