If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.