To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.