Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would almost think that there were no fools in their days but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application rather than of means that men fail to succeed.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state and all men of our time are in such a state.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.