The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.