All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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.

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.