William Mathews Men Quotations

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.