Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.