Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.
The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but h...
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.
Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go -...
We are members one of another.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Men are cruel but man is kind.
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.