No man can transcend his own individuality. Schopenhauer.
No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home. Thomas à Kempis.
No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey. Thomas à Kempis.
No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace. Thomas à Kempis.
No man ever became, or can become, largely 30 rich merely by labour and economy. Ruskin.
No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. Fisher Ames.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Emerson.
No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. Emerson.
No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. John Neale.
No man flatters the woman he truly loves. 35 Tuckermann.