If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is su...

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.