“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
“For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself”
“He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?”
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.”
“Memory is a mans real possession....in nothing else is he rich....in nothing else is he poor.”
“A righteous man does not conceive of himself as righteous; he is "only doing what anyone else would do," except, of course, that no one else does it.”