“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
“All religions have been made by men.”
“I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.”
“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 such hard work.”
“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
“The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.”
“If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.”
“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”
“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.”
“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 place.”
“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.”
“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.”
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
“Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.”
“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.”
“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”