Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. 1146 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 1.

What tho’ on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin gray, and a’ that? 
Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine,
A man’s a man for a’ that!
1147
BURNS:  For a’ That and a’ That.

Man is a summer’s day; whose youth and fire Cool to a glorious evening, and expire. 1148 HENRY VAUGHAN:  Rules and Lessons.

Beyond the poet’s sweet dream lives
The eternal epic of the man.
1149
WHITTIER:  The Grave by the Lake, St. 34.

What is man?  A foolish baby;
Vainly strives, and fights, and frets: 
Demanding all, deserving nothing,
One small grave is all he gets.
1150
CARLYLE:  Cui Bono.

=Manners.=

Fit for the mountains and the barb’rous caves, Where manners ne’er were preach’d. 1151 SHAKS.:  Tw.  Night, Act iv., Sc. 1.

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. 1152 POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 172.

=Marble.=

And sleep in dull cold marble.
1153
SHAKS.:  Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2.

All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
1154
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER:  Philaster, Act v., Sc. 3.

=March.=

The stormy March is come at last,
With wind, and clouds, and changing skies;
I hear the rushing of the blast,
That through the snowy valleys flies.
1155
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:  March.

Ah, March! we know thou art
Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats,
And, out of sight, art nursing April’s violets!
1156
HELEN HUNT:  March.

=Marriage.=

The ancient saying is no heresy;—­
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
1157
SHAKS.:  M. of Venice, Act ii, Sc. 9.

Marriage is a matter of more worth
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
1158
SHAKS.:  1 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 5.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth,
Life’s paradise, great princess, the soul’s quiet,
Sinews of concord, earthly immortality,
Eternity of pleasures.
1159
FORD:  Broken Heart, Act ii., Sc. 2.

Hail, wedded love! mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
1160
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. iv., Line 750.

Marriage is the life-long miracle,
The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
1161
CHARLES KINGSLEY:  Saint’s Tragedy, Act ii., Sc. 9.

=Martyrs.=

Life has its martyrs, as brave, as strong, and as faithful,
E’en as the martyrs of death.
1162
H.H.  BOYESEN:  Calpurnia, Pt. iv.

A pale martyr in his shirt of fire. 1163 ALEXANDER SMITH:  A Life Drama, Sc. 2.