Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.