The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.