Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.  —­Abel Stevens.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.—­Holmes.

True love is humble, thereby is it known;
Girded for service, seeking not its own;
Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise. 

                                    —­Abraham Coles.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.—­Beecher.

Man.—­Man is the image and glory of God:  but the woman is the glory of the man.—­1 COR. 11:7.

Do you know what a man is?  Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?—­Shakespeare.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.—­Goethe.

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.  —­Tennyson.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself.  No man does.  He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.—­G.A.  Sala.

The record of life runs thus:  Man creeps into childhood,—­bounds into youth,—­sobers into manhood,—­softens into age,—­totters into second childhood, and slumbers into the cradle prepared for him,—­thence to be watched and cared for.—­Henry Giles.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful, is man! 
—­Young.

He is the whole encyclopaedia of facts.  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.—­Emerson.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.—­Burke.

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,—­one dog does not change a bone with another.—­Adam Smith.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man. 
—­Pope.

His life was gentle; and the elements
So mix’d in him, that nature might stand up
And say to all the world, “This was a man!”

          
                          —­Shakespeare.

Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.  —­Job 14:1.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.—­Carlyle.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.  He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.—­Emerson.