I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Every class is unfit to govern.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.