Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Men will not always die quietly.

All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.

The fact is, very few men are right in everything.

There await men when they die things they neither expect nor even believe.

most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

Few men have been admired by their own households.

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when…
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public men.