To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'
To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.
The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.
Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect only once in this way and ne...
God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the s...
Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither ripeness is all.