Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Often a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.