Pastoral Resources

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

A government of laws, and not of men.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.