To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.