The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. Jacques Cousteau
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture. Alexander von Humboldt
With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man; Alexander von Humboldt
Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man;
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Alfred Blalock
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins.
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. Thomas Hobbes
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half. Erwin Chargaff
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. Oswald Chambers
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are. Gillian Flynn
Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? Aldo Leopold
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?