We dictate everything except his thoughts and dreams, and even these he must keep to himself if they are not suitable, in our opinion, to his condition.

The work we impose on him has all the hardship of mere task work; it is unfruitful, incessant, monotonous, and has to be transacted for the most part with nervous bores.

We make his kingdom a treadmill to him, and drive him to and fro on the face of it.

Finally, having taken everything else that men prize from him, we fall upon his character, and that of every person to whom he ventures to show favor.

We impose enormous expenses on him, stint him, and then rail at his parsimony.