A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.