“That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man’s heart into a stone!”
“The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glassBut my alchemy has transmuted glass into flintPharaohs of today have stalked me in vain”
“You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love”
“But do not misunderstand - I turned him to stone from compassion. Stone men have stone hearts, and stone hearts cannot be wounded or broken. I would show you the same compassion, if you wish it.”
“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”