“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.”

“When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.”

“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.”

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

“That soul that can
Be honest is the only perfect man.”

“How would the man born blind not have the idea of light? Nature has refused them a soul; they have some right to doubt, not only the immortality of the soul, but its existence.”

“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?”

“The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.”

“A man is only as old as the woman he feels.”

“They call me old, but I'm only 65-years old young man.”