A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
The poor are the blacks of Europe.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.