The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed.
If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces love her, love her, love her.