Trample not on the ruins of a man.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.