It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

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

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

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.