Quotes About Reflection

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

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

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.