A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's read more

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.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir read more

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.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?

Man,--whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,--
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless read more

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

All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And read more

All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts....

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest read more

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.