The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..
An Oxford man walks down the street and thinks that he owns it, a Cambridge man walks down the street and doesn't give a toss who owns it.
The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
Once there was an old man who lived in a tiny village. Although poor, he was envied by all, for he owned a beautiful white horse.
If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.
But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.
… forced to flee, he imagines that he is hunting. He does not hear his own cry of pain when he claws into his own flesh; he thinks he is expressing pleasure!
In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."