Mankind

The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.

All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do

Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victim

Music is the universal language of mankind

Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of man

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.