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When I beheld this I sighed, and said within myself, Surely man is a Broomstick!
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.
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin--which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.
A man that is temperate, generous, valiant, chaste, faithful, and honest, may, at the same time, have wit, humour, mirth, good breeding, and gallantry. While he exerts these latter qualities, twenty occasions might be invented to show he is master of the other noble virtues.
Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.
Man's wretched state,
That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count, ne'er made a man.
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,--one dog does not change a bone with another.
Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds
Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.