Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.