Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>