A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. |
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. |
A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval |
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows |
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar |
A man may have no bad habits and have worse |
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose |
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way |
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. |
A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt |
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation |
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first |
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential -- there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster. |
A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always |
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all. |