The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God .

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.