Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Finance is a slave's word.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.