The manners of the ill-mannered are never so odious, unbearable, exasperating, as they are to their own nearest kindred. P. G. Hamerton.
The many still must labour for the one! It is Nature's doom. Byron.
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin. Southey.
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has reached even the devil. Goethe.
The march of the human mind is slow. Burke. 30
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. Emerson.
The marks of attachment, even to a fault, are an accumulation of virtues. Hitopadesa.
The mass of men consulted at hustings, upon any high matter whatsoever, is as ugly an exhibition of human study as the world sees. Carlyle.
The master of slaves has seldom the soul of a man. Henry Mackenzie.
The master-spirit who can rule the storm is 35 great; but he is much greater who can both raise and rule it. E. L. Magoon.