The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.