The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked read more

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not read more

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
[Fr., read more

There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
[Fr., Non e un si bello in tante altre persone,
Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.]

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's read more

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his might:
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.