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

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.