Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.