Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.