Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

I understand men much better than most women I know.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.