There is a great deal of human nature in man.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

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

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

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

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.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of read more

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting 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.

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.