Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>