Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species...