I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.