The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
