The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
The Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.
Society codified by men decrees that woman is inferior: she can only abolish this inferiority by destroying male superiority.
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Old men alone have time to love; young men are rowing the galleys of ambition.
Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or more disdainful, than a man anxious about his own virility.
More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.[Also known as:]Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
