“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had”
“With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...”
“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
“* Success has made failures of many men. ”
“Men always want what they can’t have, or what other men want. It’s a scientific fact.”
“If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.”