The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
As to honour you know it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.