For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
A wise man travels to discover himself.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.