It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.