I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.