Mankind

There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.

Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged.

He is a true fugitive, that flies from reason, by which men are sociable.

Many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt.

There is no more gracious or perfect delight than when a whole people makes merry.

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions, such a man is a mere article of the world’s furniture.

My thoughts,—these are the wantons for me.

I am he whom you may see any afternoon sitting by himself and musing in D'Argenson's seat.

The only thing worth a man's care is the will of God, and that will is the same whether in this world or in the next.

I cannot admit that they are living the good life.

In so vast a drama, my dear friend, my personality does not count.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge

The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done

Hunger makes a thief of any man

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men