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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

No man is so great as mankind.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.