As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man's prime interest in life must be his work.
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.