A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.