The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown that terror becomes the known.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property the landlords like all other men love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men?

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less it grows feeble and when they disappear it will vanish too.

If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

As far as men go it is not what they are that interests me but what they can become.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think time to act time to extend our fraternal relations time to become better men time to become better women time to become better and more independent citizens.

'Men have forgotten this truth ' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.'

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.