“It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.”
“So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people.”
“Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.”
“Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.”
“from one thing, know ten thousand things”
“Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.”