Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

“There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.” 

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.” 

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.” 

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.” 

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” 

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” 

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” 

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.

I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.