It's just a part of our nature to hope..

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at….

Let not a man's self be to him all in all..

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery..

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself..

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility o….

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was la….

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished..

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America..

If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have imp….

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier..

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I d….

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpo….

I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account….

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand a….

I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witle….

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who ….

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives..

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man..

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself..