Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

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

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