I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Men are cruel but man is kind.
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.
We are members one of another.
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Man an animal that makes bargains.
We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.
Man will ever stand in need of man.
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
Man is an abyss and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.
A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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...