A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
An honest man is always a child.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.