Man has always humour enough to make merry with what he cannot help. Goethe.
Man has ever been a striving, struggling, and, in spite of wide-spread calumnies to the contrary, a veracious creature. Carlyle.
Man has in his own soul an Eternal; can read something of the Eternal there, if he will look. Carlyle.
Man has not a greater enemy than himself. Petrarch.
Man has quite a peculiar pleasure in making 30 proselytes; in causing others to enjoy what he enjoys, in finding his own likeness represented and reflected back to him. Goethe.
Man has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman but she has a presentiment of it some moments before. Sterne.
Man has two and a half minutes here below—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies. Jean Paul.
Man, if he compare himself with all he can see, is at the zenith of his power; but if he compare himself with all he can conceive, he is at the nadir of his weakness. Colton.
Man is a born owl. Carlyle.
Man is a bundle of habits. Pr. 35