Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy... →
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.