Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.