What a man wills, not what he knows, determines his worth or unworth, his power or impotence, his happiness or unhappiness. Lindner.
What a miserable world!—trouble if we love, 35 and trouble if we do not love. Count de Maistre.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God! Ham., ii. 2.
What a poor creature is the woman who, inspiring desire, does not also inspire love and reverence! Goethe.
What a road had human nature to traverse before it reached the point of being mild to the guilty, merciful to the injurious, and humane to the inhuman! Doubtless they were men of godlike souls who first taught this, who spent their lives in rendering the practice of this possible, and recommending it to others. Goethe.
What a sense of security is in an old book which Time has criticised for us! Lowell.
What a strange thing man is! and what a 40 stranger / Is woman! Byron.
What a thin film it is that divides the living from the dead! Carlyle.
What a vanity is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things that in the original we do not admire! Pascal.
What a view a man must have of this universe who thinks he can swallow it all, who is not doubly and trebly happy that he can keep it from swallowing him! Carlyle.