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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

A lot of men are impotent and it's very sad. How many of you are impotent? I see. Can't get your arms up either?

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.