As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures... →
Charles W. Chesnutt
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not... →
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar... →
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.