A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
Every class is unfit to govern.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...