“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”

“Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets hims apart
From every other creature
On earth.”

“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”

“One man alone is too much for one man alone.”

“Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.”

“Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.”

“If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.”

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”

“There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.”

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”