Pastoral Resources

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.