There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

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

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

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.

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

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.