Men grow old, but they do not ripen.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.

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If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

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When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

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