A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.