Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

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

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

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