Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Bored and insecure men will loose arrows at dust motes.

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

when a man is useless in every aspect of life, drop him like used sanitary pad that you’ll never use again.

Men, knowing not how to handle the tool of the mind, have become used to leaning on others and on habit; and, owing to that, this splendid tool, the human mind, has in fact become unreliable through neglect.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be — and are ruined.

Worth less, men considered themselves worthless.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative—the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.

Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be - and are ruined