Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

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

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.