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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men is hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

These are the times that try men is souls.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I have always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.