What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
I ha' seen him cow a thousand men.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
All men, in law, are equals.
When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude That man is the superior animal. When I consider the curious habits of man I confess, my friend, I am puzzled.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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