The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.