Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile and at the same time keep it clean.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change the way I see it is service to a fellow human being.
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator our very self-consciousness is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
After all the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
Throughout the centuries man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Our judgments judge us and nothing reveals us exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it if you could get a match was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men especially the most prominent one of the community the master's master the genius of the age.