Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

The best of women are hypocrites.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.