You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Wyrd bið ful āræd. Fate is inexorable. A man who rules by fear cannot afford a single setback.
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine without batting an eyelash and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least! Women are wonderful realists.
Women are the chief stumbling block in a man’s career.[Женщины – это главный камень преткновения в деятельности человека.]
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
