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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."
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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."
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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."
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"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
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"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind."
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"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."
Society
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death
"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."
People
"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."
Mind
"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."
Man
"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."
Car
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
Art
"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."
Man
"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
Writing
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
Work
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