People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Men can do all things if they will.
Such and so various are the tastes of men.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.