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How poor a thing is man!" alas 'tis true, I'd half forgot it when I chanced on you.

Man, living, feeling man is the easy prey of the powerful present. [Ger., Der Mensch ist, der lebendig fuhlende, Der leichte Raub des macht'gen Augenblicks.]

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

God made man a little lower than the angels, and he has been getting a little lower ever since.

Man is man's A, B, C. There's none that can Read God aright, unless he first spell man.

God hath given to mankind a common library, his creatures; and to every man a proper book, himself, being an abridgement of all the others: if thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant to the divine Author; if thou but barely read, it will make thee thy own wise man, and the Author's fool.

That man is the measure of all things.

Man is the measure of all things.