The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Our true nationality is mankind.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.