The miser robs himself. [ Lavater ]

Richard's himself again! [ Cibber ]

Nobody calls himself rogue. [ Proverb ]

God hides Himself behind causes. [ Charles Rollin ]

At court, every one for himself. [ Proverb ]

None is offended but by himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No man is wise enough by himself. [ Plautus ]

What exile from himself can flee? [ Byron ]

Happy is he that chastens himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A tyrant is most tyrant to himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No man is ever hurt but by himself. [ Diogenes ]

He that by the plough would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive. [ Proverb ]

Put himself upon his good behavior. [ Byron ]

The king himself has followed near.
When she has walk'd before. [ Goldsmith ]

He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known. [ Butler ]

A man when angry is beside himself. [ Publius Syrus ]

He is wise that is wise to himself. [ Euripides ]

Every man is best known to himself. [ Proverb ]

No man knows himself as an original. [ Washington Allston ]

He that tells a lie buffets himself. [ Proverb ]

Every ass loves to hear himself bray. [ Proverb ]

When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something. [ Robert Browning ]

Whoso judges others condemns himself. [ Italian Proverb ]

The coward never on himself relies,
But to an equal for assistance flies. [ Crabbe ]

The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay. [ Homer ]

He that does well wearies not himself. [ Proverb ]

Lord of himself, that heritage of woe. [ Byron ]

Who elevates himself isolates himself. [ Rivorol ]

Sin is too dull to see beyond himself. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Every one for himself and God for all. [ French Proverb ]

He is desperate that thinks himself so. [ Proverb ]

He that pays another remembers himself. [ Proverb ]

He is a conqueror who conquers himself. [ Motto ]

No good lawyer ever goes to law himself. [ Italian Proverb ]

Could he with reason murmur at his case
Himself sole author of his own disgrace? [ Cowper ]

Every fool thinks himself clever enough. [ Danish Proverb ]

The wise man knows himself to be a fool. [ William Shakespeare ]

Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land?" [ Scott ]

He that measures not himself is measured. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that pities another remembers himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that talks to himself talks to a fool. [ Proverb ]

He hath impudence to shew himself a fool. [ Proverb ]

He's a slave that cannot command himself. [ Proverb ]

He that wrongs his friend
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
A silent court of justice in his breast,
Himself the judge and jury, and himself
The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

He is only bright that shines by himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Alexander himself was once a crying babe. [ Proverb ]

No man has a monopoly of craft to himself. [ Proverb ]

No man is free who cannot command himself. [ Pythagoras ]

Every man for himself, and God for us all. [ Proverb ]

He that bears himself like a gentleman, is
Worth to have been born a gentleman. [ Chapman ]

An old ox will find a shelter for himself. [ Proverb ]

First worship God; he that forgets to pray
Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day. [ T. Randolph ]

A learned man has always riches in himself. [ Phaedr ]

He that conquers himself conquers an enemy. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

No one knows himself until he has suffered. [ A. de Musset ]

No one is happy unless he respects himself. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

He laughs ill that laughs himself to death. [ Proverb ]

The Raven's house is built with reeds, -
Sing woe, and alas is me!
And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,
High on the hollow tree;
And the Raven himself, telling his beads
In penance for his past misdeeds.
Upon the top I see. [ Thos. Darcy McGee ]

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]

No one is free who is not master of himself. [ Claudius ]

Every man a little beyond himself is a fool. [ Proverb ]

He that praiseth himself spattereth himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No really great man ever thought himself so. [ Hazlitt ]

Nobody can stand in awe of himself too much. [ Proverb ]

It is a sin to belie even the devil himself. [ Proverb ]

He is not wise that is not wise for himself. [ Proverb ]

Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

The brave man thinks of himself last of all. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

He benefits himself that does good to others. [ Proverb ]

Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]

A man is rated by others as he rates himself. [ French Proverb ]

The devil himself is good when he is pleased. [ Proverb ]

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.
He lives by rule who lives himself to please. [ Crabbe ]

Nobody thinks himself an impertinent or fool. [ Proverb ]

Learning makes a man fit company for himself. [ Proverb ]

The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]

He hath never a cross to bless himself withal. [ Proverb ]

No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possessed. [ Cowper ]

God will not make Himself manifest to cowards. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that looks not before finds himself behind. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
At fifty, chides his infamous delay.
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve.
Resolves - and re-resolves; then dies the same. [ Young ]

Each man makes his own stature, builds himself:
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. [ Edward Young ]

He's so full of himself that he is quite empty. [ Proverb ]

O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself. [ Amiel ]

He that boasts of himself affronts his company. [ Proverb ]

God gives his angels charge of those who sleep,
But He Himself watches with those who wake. [ Harriet E. H. King ]

He is below himself who is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]

The prodigal robes the heir, the miser himself. [ Proverb ]

Every one thinks himself able to advise another. [ Proverb ]

'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. [ Homer ]

He that loves himself too much loves an ill man. [ Proverb ]

He that cuts himself wilfully deserves no salve. [ Proverb ]

Give him but rope enough and he'll hang himself. [ Proverb ]

How happy is he that owes nothing but to himself! [ Proverb ]

Him who makes chaff of himself the cows will eat. [ Arab. Proverb ]

A good beast will get himself a heat with eating. [ Proverb ]

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. [ Montaigne ]

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. [ Seneca ]

Let the smith himself wear the fetters he forged. [ Proverb ]

He hath played a wily trick and beguiled himself. [ Proverb ]

He tells me my way, and does not know it himself. [ Proverb ]

He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. [ Proverb ]

He who begs for others is contriving for himself. [ Proverb ]

He looks not well to himself that looks not ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. [ Goethe ]

He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. [ French Proverb ]

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself. [ Ward Beecher ]

He that plants trees loves others besides himself. [ Proverb ]

He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself. [ Proverb ]

He that speaks ill of his wife dishonours himself. [ Proverb ]

He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. [ Proverb ]

His life is paralleled
Even with the stroke and line of his great justice;
He doth with holy abstinence subdue
That in himself which he spurs on his power
To qualify in others. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that bewails himself hath the cure in his hands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
Not ever be too curious for a boon,
Too prurient for a proof against the grain
Of him ye say ye love. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

He is happy that knows not himself to be otherwise. [ Proverb ]

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. [ La Bruyère ]

Hope keeps a man from hanging and drowning himself. [ Proverb ]

An ox, when he is loose, licks himself at pleasure. [ Proverb ]

He that looks for a requital serves himself, not me. [ Proverb ]

He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most. [ Proverb ]

That which a man causes to be done, he does himself. [ Proverb ]

That man sins charitably who damns none but himself. [ Proverb ]

To know life, a man must separate himself from life. [ Feuerbach ]

Man is only miserable so far as be thinks himself so. [ Sannazaro ]

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. [ Proverb ]

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself. [ Mencius ]

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself. [ Sophocles ]

A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself. [ Proverb ]

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. [ Bulwer ]

When a fool hath bethought himself, the market's over. [ Proverb ]

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. [ Horace ]

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong. [ Ecclus ]

He that works wickedness by another is wicked himself. [ Proverb ]

He that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered himself. [ Proverb ]

Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. [ Burton ]

Man has only too much reason to guard himself from man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Who must account for himself and others must know both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One always knocks himself on the spot where the sore is. [ French Proverb ]

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else. [ Lacordaire ]

If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself. [ Proverb ]

He, that after sinning mends, recommends himself to God. [ Proverb ]

Like the Grecian, woos the image he himself has wrought. [ Prior ]

An idle man is like stagnant water: he corrupts himself. [ Latena ]

No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. [ Monk ]

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. [ Tennyson ]

A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The envious hurt others something, but himself very much. [ Proverb ]

He hath great need of a fool that plays the fool himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every reader reads himself out of the book that he reads. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The best surgeon is he that has been well hacked himself. [ Proverb ]

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. [ Johnson ]

He who lives but for himself lives but for a little thing. [ Barjaud ]

No man is bound to accuse himself unless it be before God. [ Law Max ]

Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself. [ La Roche ]

No man knows himself till he hath tasted of both fortunes. [ Proverb ]

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. [ Johnson ]

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. [ Plautus ]

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself. [ Horace ]

Justice will not condemn even the devil himself wrongfully. [ Proverb ]

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others. [ Proverb ]

He confesses himself guilty who refuses to come to a trial. [ Proverb ]

He is in great danger, who being sick, thinks himself well. [ Proverb ]

He who was taught only by himself, had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

Where none else will, the devil himself must bear the cross. [ Proverb ]

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A man may have a just esteem of himself without being proud. [ Proverb ]

The real science and the real study for man, is man himself. [ Charron ]

Love is the road to God; for love, endless love, is Himself. [ Sonnenberg ]

So lonely it was that God himself scarce seemed there to be. [ Coleridge ]

He dwells far from neighbours who is fain to praise himself. [ Proverb ]

He is not good himself, who speaks well of every body alike. [ Proverb ]

One forgives everything to him who forgives himself nothing. [ Chinese Proverb ]

The hypocrite hurts himself; the libertine the whole society. [ Proverb ]

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [ GoldonL  ]

A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it. [ Sam'l Johnson ]

He that bears a torch shadows himself to give light to others. [ Proverb ]

No conflict is so severe as his who labours to subdue himself. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

An ass that kicks against the wall, receives the blow himself. [ Proverb ]

The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.

The day that a man knows he commits a sin, he condemns himself. [ Proverb ]

He deserves small trust who is not privy counsellor to himself. [ Forde ]

Let the drunkard alone, and by and bye he will fall of himself. [ Proverb ]

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. [ Boileau ]

He that scoffs at the crooked had need go very upright himself. [ Proverb ]

Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses. [ Proverb ]

If God were not a necessary being of Himself,
He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. [ John Tillotson ]

He that gives to a worthy person bestows a benefit upon himself. [ Proverb ]

He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Like the tailor, that sewed for nothing and found thread himself. [ Proverb ]

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. [ Bacon ]

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God. [ Horace ]

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. [ Lavater ]

A man - be the heavens ever praised! - is sufficient for himself. [ Carlyle ]

He that thinks himself a cuckold carries live coals in his heart. [ Proverb ]

He that hath a will to die by himself. Fears it not from another. [ William Shakespeare ]

He would not lend his knife, no, not to the devil to stab himself. [ Proverb ]

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. [ Proverb ]

He's a pretty fellow of an orator that makes panegyric of himself. [ Proverb ]

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure.
The dread of censure is the death of genius. [ Simms ]

At every stage of life he reaches, man finds himself but a novice. [ Chamfort ]

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. [ Goethe ]

When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. [ Proverb ]

He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation. [ Proverb ]

A man with a running head never wants wherewith to trouble himself. [ Proverb ]

It is God himself who speaks to us, when noble thoughts inspire us.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. [ Publius Syrus ]

He who is the cause of his own misfortunes may bewail them himself. [ Italian Proverb ]

He is a slave of the greatest slave who serves nothing but himself. [ Proverb ]

He that makes himself an ass, must not take it ill if men ride him. [ Proverb ]

A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secrets but himself. [ Guizot ]

One may show himself great in good fortune, but exalted only in bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

He who thinks himself good for everything is often good for nothing. [ Picard ]

A wise writer does not reveal himself here and there, but everywhere. [ Lowell ]

To go against reason and conscience, is to rebel against God himself. [ Proverb ]

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. [ Auerbach ]

No man ever thought too highly of his nature or too meanly of himself. [ Young ]

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew Himself, or his own virtue. [ Mallet ]

Know this, that he that is a friend of himself is a friend to all men. [ Seneca ]

Here is the egotist's code: everything for himself, nothing for others. [ Sanial-Dubay ]

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. [ Kant ]

He gets a double victory who overcomes himself, when he does his enemy. [ Proverb ]

He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [ Lucan ]

Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room. [ Proverb ]

A man's little the better for liking himself, if nobody else likes him. [ Proverb ]

A man as he manages himself may die old at thirty and a child at eighty. [ Proverb ]

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. [ Montaigne ]

Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God, and a scorpion to himself. [ Spurgeon ]

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear. [ Lamartine ]

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God Himself, were it possible. [ Bancroft ]

He who gives of his wealth before dying, prepares himself to suffer much. [ Italian Proverb ]

Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. [ St. Paul ]

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The avaricious man is kind to no person, but he is most unkind to himself. [ Latin Proverb ]

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. [ Emmons ]

Man should place himself above prejudices, and woman should submit to them. [ Mme. Necker ]

It is a part of good-breeding, that a man should be polite, even to himself. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. [ Horace Smith ]

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor. [ W. R. Alger ]

He may rate himself a happy man who lives remote from the gods of this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Like the dog in the manger, he will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himself into a good way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that punishes another in anger, shall feel it himself when the fit is over. [ Proverb ]

The more anyone speaks of himself the less he likes to hear another talked of. [ Lavater ]

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence. [ Lavater ]

It is absurd that he should govern others, who knows not how to govern himself. [ Law Max ]

The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. [ Bishop Hall ]

Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Man is properly an incarnated word; the word that he speaks is the man himself. [ Carlyle ]

There is no religion without mystery. God Himself is the great secret of nature. [ Chateaubriand ]

When a thief has no opportunity for stealing, he considers himself an honest man. [ Talmud ]

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. [ La Bruyère ]

He that is too busy in mending and judging of others, will never be good himself. [ Proverb ]

One may ruin himself by frankness, but one surely dishonors himself by duplicity. [ Vieillard ]

Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself nor lets any body else. [ Proverb ]

When a man finds not repose in himself it is in vain for him to seek it elsewhere. [ From the French ]

He conquers twice who, at the moment of victory, conquers (i.e. restrains) himself. [ Publius Syrus ]

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. [ Ward Beecher ]

Dependants, friends, relations, love himself, ravaged by woe, forget the tender tie. [ Thomson ]

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead. [ D'Alembert ]

A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. [ Carlyle ]

I believe that a man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. [ Thomas Paine ]

I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

He who determines to love only those who are faultless will soon find himself alone. [ Vihischti ]

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. [ Monk ]

No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish in himself the last ray of light. [ Th. Körner ]

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God. [ John B. Gough ]

He that gives himself leave to play with his neighbour's fame, may soon play it away. [ Proverb ]

He that flatters himself in sciences, and grows worse in morals, makes no improvement. [ Proverb ]

Man must either make provision of sense to understand, or of a halter to hang himself. [ Antisthenes ]

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less. [ Pope ]

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. [ Lowell ]

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. [ Colton ]

From the power which constrains every creature man frees himself by overcoming himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance. [ Saadi ]

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. [ Addison ]

He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever. [ Carlyle ]

Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works even be it against his will. [ Goethe ]

The wise man will commit no business of importance to a proxy when he may do it himself. [ L'Estrange ]

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself. [ Cicero ]

He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every man stamps his value on himself; the price we challenge for ourselves is given us. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow eyes, and builds himself caves to abide in them. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

The astronomer thinks of the stars, the naturalist of nature, the philosopher of himself. [ Fontenelle ]

Let no man presume to give advice to others, that has not first given counsel to himself. [ Seneca ]

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. [ Gibbon ]

A friend gives himself to his beloved, and the higher his excellence the richer the gift. [ William Ellery Channing ]

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. [ Sir E. Brydges ]

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [ Arndt ]

Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day. [ Seneca ]

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. [ Bishop Hall ]

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise. [ From the Latin ]

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act. [ Ludwig Tieck ]

The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself. [ Brougham ]

The dog in the manger (that would not let the ox eat the hay which he could not eat himself).

A fool is happier in thinking well of himself, than a wise man in others thinking well of him. [ Proverb ]

We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. [ Lessing ]

Brave is the lion-vanquisher, brave is the world-subduer, but braver he who has subdued himself. [ J. G. Herder ]

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

Man can make himself master over much, hardly can necessity and length of time subdue his spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. [ Carlyle ]

That is not good language which all understand not He that burns his house warms himself for once. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. [ Pope ]

By reading a man does, as it wore, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself. [ Sir T. Browne ]

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [ Goethe ]

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [ Goethe ]

Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour, at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself. [ Peacham ]

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself. [ Cicero ]

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Let every one inquire of himself what he loveth, and he shall resolve himself of whence he is a citizen. [ S. Augustine ]

Be no one like another, yet every one like the Highest; to this end let each one be perfect in himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. [ Carlyle ]

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. [ Lavater ]

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, who never to himself hath saith, This is my own, my native land! [ Sir Walter Scott ]

No evil can touch him who looks on human beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself, I shall today be uppermost? [ Confucius ]

He who has published an injurious book sins in his very grave, corrupts others while he is rotting himself. [ South ]

No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked. [ Burns ]

Nature works after such eternal, necessary, divine laws, that the Deity himself could alter nothing in them. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, after Spinoza ]

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private. [ Montaigne ]

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

No one ought to enjoy what is too good for him: he ought to make himself worthy of it, and rise to its level. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre. [ Locke ]

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. [ Bible ]

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. [ Goethe ]

A creation of importance can be produced only when its author isolates himself; it is ever a child of solitude. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others. [ Herder ]

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. [ Phillips Brooks ]

All men are fools: to escape seeing one, one would be compelled to shut himself in his room, and break his mirror. [ De Sade ]

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. [ Sir J. Stevens ]

Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. [ Diogenes ]

Genuine work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal a the Almighty Founder and world-builder himself. [ Carlyle ]

A man after death is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. [ Swedenborg ]

Every person has two educations - one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. [ Charles Dickens ]

The pen is a formidable weapon; but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. [ G. D. Prentice ]

Much wishes man for himself, and yet needs he but little; for the days are short, and limited is the fate of mortals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Were there but one man in the world, he would be a terror to himself; and the highest man not less so than the lowest. [ Carlyle ]

He that, by often arguing against his own sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself. [ Locke ]

Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, seem to be drawn by love's own hand, by love himself in love. [ Dryden ]

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. [ Tupper ]

The influence of custom is incalculable; dress a boy as a man and he will at once change his own conception of himself. [ Bayle St. John ]

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. [ Edward Herbert ]

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. [ Jane Porter ]

We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. [ J. von Muller ]

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. [ Cecil ]

He in whom there is much to be developed will be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To hate a man for his errors is as unwise as to hate one who, in casting up an account, has made an error against himself. [ Robertson ]

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. [ Juvenal ]

Man is the highest product of his own history. The Discoverer finds nothing so tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. [ Theodore Parker ]

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. [ Hawthorne ]

A man of genius may sometimes suffer a miserable sterility; but at other times he will feel himself the magician of thought. [ John Foster ]

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. [ Addison ]

No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all. [ Cervantes ]

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. [ Montesquieu ]

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]

God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. [ T. Fuller ]

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. [ Charles Buxton ]

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. [ La Bruyere ]

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. [ Lavater ]

Pride, in some particular disguise or other - often a secret to be proud himself - is the most ordinary spring of action among men. [ Steele ]

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. [ Alexander Walker ]

Forgiveness, that noblest of all selfdenial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. [ Colton ]

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. [ Carlyle ]

Man is an eternal mystery, even to himself. His own person is a house which he never enters, and of which he studies but the outside. [ E. Souvestre ]

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about. [ Hazlitt ]

He that is sensible of no evil but what he feels, has a hard heart; and he that can spare no kindness from himself, has a narrow soul. [ Collier ]

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. [ Wordsworth ]

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. [ Epictetus ]

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]

He that claims, either in himself or for another, the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist. [ Johnson ]

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the doorsill of insanity, at least once. [ Taine ]

He who thinks he can do without the world deceives himself; but he who thinks that the world can not do without him is still more in error. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. [ Juv ]

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours. [ Burke ]

He will steal himself into a man's favor and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. [ William Shakespeare ]

True dignity abides with him alone who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect and still revere himself in lowliness of heart. [ Wordsworth ]

Two gifts are indispensable to the dramatic poet; one is the power of forgetting himself, the other is the power of remembering his characters. [ Stoddart ]

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to chink himself a respectable man. [ George MacDonald ]

Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads, that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it. [ Ruffini ]

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. [ Goethe ]

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. [ Macaulay ]

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe; but to find out what he has to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury: for he has it then in his power to make himself his superior to the other by forgiveness. [ Drummond ]

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. [ Tillotson ]

This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself. [ Aughey ]

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. [ C. Kingsley ]

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other. [ Epictetus ]

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him. [ Chesterfield ]

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. [ Seneca ]

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none. [ Henry James ]

He that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot be had as long as it is waited for. It is absurd for a man to wait for that which he himself has to do. [ Nevins ]

All religions are more or less mixed with superstitions. Man is not reasonable enough to content himself with a pure and sensible religion, worthy of the Deity. [ Voltaire ]

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform. [ William Godwin ]

Every reader reads himself out of the book that he reads; nay, has he a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with the author's. [ Goethe ]

He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him. [ Bishop Hall ]

Adverse fortune seldom spares men of the noblest virtues. No one can with safety expose himself often to dangers. The man who has often escaped is at last caught. [ Seneca ]

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely wicked; but grows so, either as he holds himself up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The prodigality of women has reached such proportions that one must be wealthy to have one for himself: we have no other resource than to love the wives of others. [ A. Karr ]

Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. [ John Morley ]

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. [ Carlyle ]

Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of the society. [ Steele ]

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]

The way out of our narrowness may not be so easy as the way in. The weasel that creeps into the corn-bin has to starve himself before he can leave by the same passage. [ Bartol ]

When the heart of man is serene and tranquil, he wants to enjoy nothing but himself: every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. [ Richter ]

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. [ Seneca ]

Neglect is enough to ruin a man; a man who is in business need not commit forgery or robbery to ruin himself; he has only to neglect his business, and his ruin is certain. [ A. Barnes ]

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. [ Dante ]

A man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person, which accounts for so much in women that their husbands never appreciate in them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.

Their avenging God! rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in slow fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to recognize a man who made himself a god. [ A. de Musset ]

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. [ Bacon ]

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this. [ William Ellery Channing ]

He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. [ Scott ]

There is scarce any man who cannot persuade himself of his own merit. Has he commonsense, he prefers it to genius; has he some diminutive virtues, he prefers them to great talents. [ Sewall ]

That rich man is great who thinketh not himself great because he is rich; the proud man (who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but not full. [ S. Hieron ]

There is but one case wherein a man may commend himself with good grace, and that is in commending virtue in another, especially if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth. [ Bacon ]

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. [ Shaftesbury ]

In oratory, affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. [ Lord Herbert ]

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. [ Shenstone ]

He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. [ Cicero ]

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. [ Macaulay ]

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's preexistence. [ Jeremy Collier ]

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]

Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends, - all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father, who would call us homeward toward Himself. [ J. G. Holland ]

Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it. [ Matthew Arnold ]

To live without bitterness, one must turn his eyes toward the ludicrous side of the world, and accustom himself to look at men only as jumping jacks, and at society as the board on which they jump. [ Chamfort ]

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. [ Frederic Saunders ]

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. [ Hazlitt ]

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself [ South ]

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. [ Emerson ]

The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. [ Washington Allston ]

He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. [ John Foster ]

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank. [ Colton ]

The examples of maternal influences are countless; Solomon himself records the words of wisdom that fell from a mother's lips, and Timothy was taught the Scriptures from a child by his grandmother and his mother. [ A. Ritchie ]

No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, - of men ia distant countries and in past times. [ Emerson ]

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back: but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself. [ Burkitt ]

The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe: but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling. [ O. W. Holmes ]

A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. [ W. Warburton ]

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong. [ Jane Porter ]

At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us. [ Plutarch ]

To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. [ W. Irving ]

No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. [ Colton ]

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself: but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. [ Goethe ]

Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. There does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him. Man is made great or little by his own will. [ Schiller ]

Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]

No doubt every person is entitled to make and to think as much of himself as possible, only he ought not to worry others about this, for they have enough to do with and in themselves, if they too are to be of some account, both now and hereafter. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

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. [ Buffon ]

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have served other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself. To win for his individual name some clear praise. [ Tupper ]

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]

Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth and a general negligence of dress, and he will in all probability find a corresponding disposition by negligence of address. [ Sir Jonah Barrington ]

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion. [ Colton ]

Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. [ Addison ]

Two qualities are demanded of a statesman who would direct any great movement of opinion in which he himself takes a part; he must have a complete understanding of the movement itself, and he must be animated by the same motives as those which inspire the movement. [ Lamartine ]

A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which like the skin has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. [ Goethe ]

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself, is also a friend to mankind; even in my studies the greatest delight I take is that of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner. [ Seneca ]

Socrates was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not. [ Bacon ]

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]

Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

'Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person has anything from himself, or whether he has it from others, whether he operates by himself, or operates by means of others. The main point is to have a great will, and skill and perseverance to carry it out. All else is indifferent. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]

Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]

No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects. [ Lord Shaftesbury ]

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician - I should like to be also something of a man. [ Theodore Parker ]

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. [ Colton ]

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]

The world is divided into two armies. Men make offensive war, women defensive. Love exalts and excites the two parties. They meet hand to hand. Love throws himself into their midst, agitating his torch. But the struggle differs from other battles: instead of destroying, it multiplies the combatants. [ S. Marechal ]

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. [ Seneca ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times, Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is. [ Emerson ]

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]

As well might a lovely woman look daily in her mirror, yet not be aware of her beauty, as a great soul be unconscious of the powers with which Heaven has gifted him; not so much for himself, as to enlighten others - a messenger from God Himself, with a high and glorious mission to perform. Woe unto him who abuses that mission! [ Chambers ]

I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. [ Arthur Warwick ]

To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]

It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph, but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial. [ Charles James Fox ]

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself. [ Trench ]

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon. But even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him. It is the lapidary that gives value to the diamond, which the peasant has dug up without knowing its worth. [ Abbe Raynal ]

Lavater told Goethe that, on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him. [ Heinrich Heine ]

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

When the great Kepler had at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself. [ Macaulay ]

No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

It is good for any man to be alone with nature and himself, or with a friend who knows when silence is more sociable than talk, In the wilderness alone, there where nature worships God. It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great, where what he sees all around him has the same look as it had a thousand years ago, and will have the same, in all likelihood, when he has been a thousand years in his grave. It abates and rectifies a man, if he is worth the process. [ Sydney Smith ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]