Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.