"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; * * * * * * Yours is the Earth and every thing that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a man, my son!"

"Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."

"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble."

"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."

"Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils."

"Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin."

"Man dwells apart, though not alone, He walks among his peers unread; The best of thoughts which he hath known For lack of listeners are not said."

"Ad unguem factus homo."

"Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est."

"Pulvis et umbra sumus."

"The fool of fate, thy manufacture, man."

"Forget the brother and resume the man."

"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,— Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive; and successive rise."

"God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie."

"Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him."

"Man is all symmetrie, Full of proportions, one limbe to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath privite amitie, And both with moons and tides."

"A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also."

"Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann."

"Die Menschen fürchtet nur, wer sie nicht kennt Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald verkennen."

"Charms and a man I sing, to wit—a most superior person, Myself, who bear the fitting name of George Nathaniel Curzon."

"La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme c'est l'homme."

"Men the most infamous are fond of fame: And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame."

"A self-made man? Yes—and worships his creator."

"I am made all things to all men."

"The first man is of the earth, earthy."

"An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within."

"Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be."

"Aye, think! since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Only because you toiled and wept."

"Man is a tool making animal."

"Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light."

"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man."

"Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."

"There is no Theam more plentiful to scan, Then is the glorious goodly Frame of Man."

"How dull, and how insensible a beast Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest."

"This is the porcelain clay of humankind."

"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full of cravings too, and full as vain."

"A sacred spark created by his breath, The immortal mind of man his image bears; A spirit living 'midst the forms of death, Oppressed, but not subdued, by mortal cares."

"But strive still to be a man before your mother."

"To lead, or brass, or some such bad Metal, a prince's stamp may add That value, which it never had. But to the pure refined ore, The stamp of kings imparts no more Worth, than the metal held before."

"And say without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh! what were man?—a world without a sun."

"Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die—in moulding Sheridan."

"What tho' the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile?"

"Man is a make believe animal—he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"We are coming we, the young men, Strong of heart and millions strong; We shall work where you have trifled, Cleanse the temple, right the wrong, Till the land our fathers visioned Shall be spread before our ken, We are through with politicians; Give us Men! Give us Men!"

"Lords of humankind."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

"At all times man approached his surroundings with wide open senses and a fertile intelligence, at all times he made incredible discoveries, at all times we can learn from his ideas."

"I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. 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 and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen."

"Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer."