Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain