“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

“But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”

“Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”

“Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.”