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• The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is profoundly ignorant.
  -- Shaftesbury...
• A man may sometimes be forgiven the kiss to which he is not entitled, but never the kiss he has not the initiative to claim.
• But if a man happens to find himself ... he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
• A man should never be ashamed to admit he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
  -- Pope...
• A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
  -- Charles Schwab, American industriali...
• Man has got astray out of his orbit, or away from the ends for which he was created. -- John Mui
• No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
  -- Chesterfield...
• Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
  -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)...