In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they read more

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us read more

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are read more

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high read more

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the read more

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.