Men complain of not finding a place of repose. They are in the wrong; they have it for seeking. What they indeed should complain of is, that the heart is an enemy to that very repose they seek. Goldsmith.
Men contemplate distinctions because they are stupefied with ignorance (viz., of the substantial identity of things). Eastern saying, quoted by Emerson.
Men deal with life as children with their play, / Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. Cowper.
Men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. Goethe.
Men descend to meet. Emerson.
Men do not make their homes unhappy because they have genius, but because they have not enough genius. Wordsworth.
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them: they don't live by trade but by work. Ruskin.
Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Pope.
Men, elevated above all states, are now the 5 educators of states—dead men, for instance, like Plato. Jean Paul.
Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak. Mme. de Staël.