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• As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
  Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him....
• But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth.
  Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of ma...
• Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic.
  He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods....
• What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
  -- New Testament -- Matthew xvi, 26...
• If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings, and the widow weeps.
  -- William Shakespeare...
• A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...
• Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
  Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still....
• It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Cunning...
• Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. -- Proverbs, 26:5