Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.[Versuch nicht, ein Mann des Erfolgs zu werden. Werde lieber ein Mann von Wert!]
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
To assert, in any case, that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this today.
Time, which alone can establish a man’s reputation, has at last made those defects respectable.
There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
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 writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
