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- Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon
- There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Xun Zi
- Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. — Michel de Montaigne
- The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. — Michel de Montaigne