Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable read more

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this read more

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a read more

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

For nothing human foreign was to him.

For nothing human foreign was to him.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he read more

An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.