Man is an ape with possibilities.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the read more

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.

I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a read more

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, read more

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

The so-called human race.

The so-called human race.