A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.