Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason...