You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool,

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.