You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!