To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
There was only one lesson a girl had to remember: A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft.
There may be no heroic connotation to the word “persistence,” but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.[Also known as:]Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.[Zweierlei will der ächte Mann: Gefahr und Spiel. Desshalb will er das Weib, als das gefährlichste Spielzeug.]
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn’t know how to handle money is to give him some.
The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.
The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
