So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Power educates the potentate.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Art is a jealous mistress.