A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Man has been adjudged a social animal.
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?
I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
The child is father of the man.