“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.”

“Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor shall be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

“You know I have loved him always.But we are very poor.Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”

“If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.”