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For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour.
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour.
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.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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?
Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked read more
Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
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.