The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.