We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
There is a noble and a base side to every history.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!