Man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and, in his manners, equal the majesty of the world. Emerson.
Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a reed that thinks. Pascal.
Man is created free, is free, even if he were born in chains. Schiller.
Man is created to fight; he is perhaps best of 10 all definable as a born soldier; his life "a battle and a march" under the right generals. Carlyle.
Man is emphatically a proselytising creature. Carlyle.
Man is ever the most interesting object to man, and perhaps should be the only one to interest him. Goethe.
Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Emerson.
Man is fire and woman tow; the devil comes and sets them in a blaze. Pr.
Man is first a spirit, bound by invisible bonds 15 to all men; and secondly, he wears clothes, which are the visible emblems of that fact. Carlyle, the two main ideas emphasised in "Sartor."
Man is for ever the born thrall of certain men, born master of certain other men, born equal of certain others, let him acknowledge the fact or not. Carlyle.