A man enjoys what he uses, not what his servants use.

Masters and servants are both tyrannical; but the masters are the more dependent of the two.

The relation of master and servant is advantageous only to masters who do not scruple to abuse their authority, and to servants who do not scruple to abuse their trust.

The perfect servant, when his master makes humane advances to him, feels that his existence is threatened, and hastens to change his place.

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.

Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Great men refuse titles because they are jealous of them.