War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.