Pastoral Resources

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

Men can do all things if they will.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.