Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
