It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

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.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because read more

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in read more

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

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?

All sorts and conditions of men.

All sorts and conditions of men.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the read more

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

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.