Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

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

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

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

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.