Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.

Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over read more

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

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 is the nobler growth our realms supply
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes read more

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.