A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.