The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

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

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.