Man is for ever the brother of man. Carlyle.
Man is free as the bird is in its cage: he can move about within certain limits. Lavater.
Man is God's image; but a poor man is / Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard. / God reckons for him, counts the favour His. George Herbert.
Man is greater than a world, than systems of 20 worlds; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the physical than in the creation of a universe. H. Giles.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can / Render an honest and a perfect man, / Commands all light, all influence, all fate; / Nothing to him falls early or too late. Beaumont and Fletcher.
Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. Goethe.
Man is like the worker at Gobelins, who weaves on the wrong side a tapestry of which he does not see the design. Renan.
Man is made great or little by his own will. Schiller.
Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue 25 of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees. Emerson.
Man is man everywhere. Carlyle.