You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.