Mankind

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.

He is one of a crowd, a taxpayer, an elector, an anonymity, but not a man.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish