Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.

Often a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

All men are equal; it is not their birth,
But virtue itself that makes the difference.