What a man is is the basis ...

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
 John Mason Brown

Quotes from the same author

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
 John Mason Brown
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
 John Mason Brown
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
 John Mason Brown
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
 John Mason Brown
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
 John Mason Brown