If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.