The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.