Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.