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

The more we know, the better our intuitions.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

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

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

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

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.