When I look upon seamen men of science and philosophers man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

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

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I know war as few other men now living know it and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.