In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.