As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Man's most serious activity is play.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.