I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
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.
God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.
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.
Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion a...
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.
To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.
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...
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.
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...
The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither ripeness is all.
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
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