Pastoral Resources

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.