"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."

"But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar."

"Lord of himself;—that heritage of woe!"

"Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?"

"Man,—whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,— Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!"

"The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that."

"A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that."

"A man's a man for a' that!"

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave."

"All sorts and conditions of men."

"Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky."

"Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay."

"Man only,—rash, refined, presumptuous Man— Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan! Born the free heir of nature's wide domain, To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign; Resigns his native rights for meaner things, For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings."

"The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise."

"Because both man and woman have roles indispensable for life, without them the world cannot endure even a day. Their capabilities are about the same, but men are generally stronger than women. If a strong man fights a woman he will always win."

"Ah! how unjust to nature, and himself, Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man."

"How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He, who made him such!"

"It must have required enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present. Moreover, the development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man's appreciation for the significance of time. ...Belief that the ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking, and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events."

"Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."

"If a young man gets married, starts a family, and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her, on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst."

"A man is made by the quality of his enemies."

"Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great gone Forever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat—one Who can rule and dare not lie."

"I am a part of all that I have met."

"However, the spiritual man examines all things, but he himself is not examined by any man."

"For, indeed, while we were still weak, Christ died for ungodly men at the appointed time. For hardly would anyone die for a righteous man; though perhaps for a good man someone may dare to die. But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

"A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;—rumple the one,—you rumple the other."

"Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late."

"But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest."

"If the dichotomy between life-producing and preserving and commodity-producing activities is abolished, if men acquire caring and nurturing qualities which have so far been considered women’s domain, and if, in an economy based on self-reliance, mutuality, self-provisioning, not women alone but men too are involved in subsistence production they will have neither time nor the inclination to pursue their destructive war games. A subsistence perspective will be the most significant contribution to the de-militarization of men and society. Only a society based on a subsistence perspective can afford to live in peace with nature, and uphold peace between nations, generations and men and women, because it does not base its concept of a good life on the exploitation and domination of nature and other people."

"Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing."

"What is man? What is his purpose? What is the good in him and what the bad? Take the length of his life: a hundred years is long. Like a drop of water from the sea, a grain of sand, such are his few years compared with eternity. For this reason, the Lord has patience with them and pours out his mercy on them. He sees and realizes how miserable their end is and so he heaps his forgiveness upon them. Man’s mercy is for his neighbor but the compassion of the Lord reaches all people; he rebukes, corrects, teaches and brings back his flock like a shepherd. He takes pity on those who accept correction and eagerly seek his will."

"Nietzsche … he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant."

"Every man is odd."

"For men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer."

"I wonder men dare trust themselves with men."

"Why, he's a man of wax."

"Are you good men and true?"

"A proper man as one shall see in a summer's day."

"God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man."

"::::: … man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority,…"

"This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!""

"The foremost man of all this world."

"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."