“I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
“In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
“Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”
“I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.”
“Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.”