She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.