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All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

Nature ne'er meant her secrets to be found, And man's a riddle which man can't expound.

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. [Lat., Os homini sublime dedit coelumque tueri Jussit; et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.]

Man's the bad child of the universe.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

I teach you beyond Man [Uebermensch; overman-superman]. Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.

We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials.