Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

It is right to give every man his due.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.