A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.
Venus can see at night without eyes.
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.