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.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.