Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.