A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
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.
We moralize among ruins.
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.