The revelation of God to any man is not God coming from a distance upon a time to pay a brief and momentous visit to the man's soul.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

“Out there alone, man is nothing, God is everything.”
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee

The necessary thing to a man is not gold, nor position, nor power, but simply his own soul.
— from The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding

And this reminds me of a saying of one of the most astute politicians and most capable public men of recent development: "The surest sign that a man is not great is that he strives to look great."
— from The Young Man and the World by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge

But there's no help for it; it's like changing one's teeth; a man is not grown up until he has had his experience."
— from The Red Room by August Strindberg

In ordinary conversation with friends, or with those about me, I never gave any thought to my language, and I have always wondered that Augustus Cæsar should have taken such pains in this respect.
— from Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca

The added mileage is not great, but the added experience gained through seeing them is enormous.
— from Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota by P. D. (Purl Dewey) Peterson

(4) The average man is not given to careful observation.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

The Rev. Mr. Begin, who was their cure since 1825, had accepted the moral principles of the great Roman Catholic “Theologia Liguori,” which says, “that a man is not guilty of 336 the sin of drunkenness, so long as he can distinguish between a small pin and a load of hay.”
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

But the promotion of taste and literature cannot be primary objects of political institutions; and if they could, it might be doubted whether, in the long course of things, as much is not gained by a wide diffusion of general knowledge, as is lost by diminishing the number of those who are enabled by fortune and leisure to devote themselves exclusively to scientific and literary pursuits.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

As things are, Martin is no good to me, no help to me.
— from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells