Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.