A place . . . a time . . . where a man can live his life full measure.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are

Durer would have seen a reason for living
in a town like this

The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud?

I dream of a state of affairs in which every man would know that he lives and dies for the preservation of the species.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.

I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

And that's what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and importance of their own individual lives.

love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can live in them.

I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.