Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.