The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

We wake from one dream into another dream.