All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.