I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.