The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.