In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

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

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.