There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.