I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.