Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I hear many condemn these men [Founding Fathers] because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Law never made men a whit more just.