These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.