Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.