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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.