It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

I know many married men I even know a few happily married men but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition men have at all times and in all countries called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine beer opium brandy or tobacco.

When men lost in the devious ways of error and self have forgotten the "heavenly birth " ... they set up artificial standards by which to judge one another

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

If you think of paying court to the men in power your eternal ruin is assured.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.

No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers are but buzzes, but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others have stings.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

The world of men is dreaming it has gone mad in its sleep and a snake is strangling it but it can't wake up.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

To reform a world to reform a nation no wise man will undertake, and all but foolish men know that the only solid though a far slower reformation is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare that force us to grow old in camp that dash us upon foreign shores.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them when he is asleep is in a world of his own.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men between brothers?

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes.

Men are born to succeed not to fail.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I shall never be a heretic, I may err in dispute but I do not wish to decide anything finally, on the other hand I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day rarely of what they had seen.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

It is little men know of women, their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another, but women are by nature enemies.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly, and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast going to work coming home petting the dog watching TV kissing the kids and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Priests are not men of the world, it is not intended that they should be, and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow, in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels they rise they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Whores don't live in company of poor men citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both, this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

Fishes live in the sea as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the little ones.

Men in great place are thrice servants - servants of the sovereign or state servants of fame and servants of business.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction. Do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain, even between brethren, is a declaration of war.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one and pass over the other

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse, it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion but realities of intellect from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.

Let men see let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Produce great men the rest follows.

There is the sky which is all men's together.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses I still don't get young men standing up and saying 'How can I combine career and family?'

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

It is generally in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper principles and designs.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

A man is ethical only when life as such is sacred to him that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much more than to know little and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more and not keep their suspicions in smother.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being the former has made us men.

Few rich men own their property, their property owns them.

When men come to like a sea-life they are not fit to live on land.

It is possible to provide security against other ills but as far as death is concerned we men live in a city without walls.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died then only can you call it good or bad.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Read not to contradict and confute nor to believe and take for granted but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.

The trouble is that racial stereotypes unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction were completely accepted and indeed scarcely noted in those days of only forty years ago [the 1930s] (except perhaps by the members of the groups victimized thereby).

Personally I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

It disturbs me no more to find men base unjust or selfish than to see apes mischievous wolves savage or the vulture ravenous.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

When men speak ill of thee live so as nobody may believe them.

A wise man that had it for a by-word when he saw men hasten to a conclusion `Stay a little that we may make an end the sooner'.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

When men are inhuman take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Serve man until you see God in all men.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong, not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich, not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned, not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians.

The learned are envied by the foolish, rich men by the poor, chaste women by adulteresses, and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

The greater intellect one has the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman, they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Two aged men that had been foes for life Met by a grave and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife, Then wept again the loss of all those years.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

They died hard those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy and they were lousy and they stunk. And I loved them.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough, or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See you did it yourself.'

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think, as others of what they know.

Love it has been said flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents, and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Time takes away the grief of men.

Many men of course became extremely rich but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor at least no one worth speaking of.

Men speak of natural rights but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime then I attack them one and all because they enslave the minds of men.

I remember being on film sets when I was younger and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too ' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

Two things control men's nature instinct and experience.

Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

I teach that all men are mad.

He that knows himself knows others, and he that is ignorant of himself could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it never care for anything else thereafter.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales so is the other.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane human being has ever given his assent.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

As far as men go it is not what they are that interests me but what they can become.

In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics that action and reaction are equal and opposite that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words, still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

As long as men are free to ask what they must free to say what they think free to think what they will freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Many men are contemptuous of riches, few can give them away.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The men who learn endurance are they who call the whole world brother.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful something good.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things, it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house for hundreds of years. It is not then an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital and often in the case of professional men setting out in life it is their only capital.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world as pastors teach but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old, they grow old because they quit playing.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to by their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

All he would have needed to do to verify or refute this theory was to ask a number of men and women to open their mouths so he could count their teeth.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Strong women only marry weak men.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Great men unknown to their generation have their fame among the great who have preceded them and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum in which men steal through existence like sluggish waters through a marsh without either honor or observation.

Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature, and the error is ineradicable.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Millions of men have lived to fight build palaces and boundaries shape destinies and societies, but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women though we do have an advantage: make-up.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

Daring is not safe against daring men.

The great majority of men especially in France both desire and possess a fashionable woman much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

If any civilization is to survive it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I know war as few other men now living know it and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

If all men cannot be brought to the same opinion on morals and religion it is at least worthwhile to give them good reasons for as much as they can be persuaded to accept

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

A skilful leech is better far than half a hundred men of war.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains always was.

When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.

When small men attempt great enterprises they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

Death so called is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep

'Mr. Churchill if you were my husband I'd poison your tea!' - And if you were my wife I would drink it!

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty send them, in for I am quite at leisure.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

All men's souls are immortal but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

How to gain how to keep how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do and of all they are willing to endure.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others

Let men decide firmly what they will not do and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Nakedness is uncomely as well in mind as body and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Love rules the court the camp the grove And men below and saints above: For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves, they therefore remain bound

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation the man of manly character and of wisdom.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Fires can't be made with dead embers nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

States are as the men they grow out of human characters.

All men make mistakes but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Men are just as sensitive and in some ways more sensitive than women are.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.

I only like two kinds of men domestic and imported.

By being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverest boys . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the normal British sentence - which is a noble thing.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour

I consider time as an in immense ocean in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up

If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men?

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

The law will never make a man free, it is men who have got to make the law free.

Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars and lies in a very narrow compass.

Men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white or women created for men.

Economy is a savings-bank into which men drop pennies and get dollars in return.

She had consented to create again / That Adam called `the happiest of men'.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Adversity makes men and prosperity makes monsters.

Power does not corrupt men, fools however if they get into a position of power corrupt power.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Men often pass from love to ambition but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

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

The sensitivity of men to small matters and their indifference to great ones indicates a strange inversion.

What men prize most is a privilege even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Rich White Men Don't Care About Poor Black People

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no your lean hungry men who are continually worrying society and setting the whole community by the ears.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf, is better than a whole loaf.

Again men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet an elder man not at all

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another but from God only.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few, and that too at the expense of social pleasure health conscience life.

We see flowers of all kinds. Men are able to make plastic flowers of the same kind. But can any one fill the plastic flowers with the native fragrance that is got from natural flowers? This is possible only by the Divine.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles but by producing them. They don't live by trade but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions, and take that of laborers Unions.

Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would almost think that there were no fools in their days but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

My hair is grey but not with years / Nor grew it white / In a single night / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract, it is merely a compact between men.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

If a wave of service sweeps over the land catching everyone in its enthusiasm it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do, your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

Time which alone makes the reputation of men ends by making their defects respectable.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art, men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful but vengeful, and if a little charity is not forgotten it turns into a gnawing worm.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The world is not looking for servants there are plenty of these but for masters men who form their purposes and then carry them out let the consequences be what they may.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward, they may be beaten but they may start a winning game.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected and less just.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.