Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.