For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.