The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.