Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.