'Few people have the sense of financial individuality strongly developed. They do not know what it means to be a controller of wealth, to have that which releases the sources of social action - its medium of exchange. They want money, but not for money's sake. They want it for what it will buy in the way of simple comforts, whereas the financier wants it for what it will control for what it will represent in the way of dignity, force, power.'

'Literature, outside of the masters, has given us but one idea of the mistress, the subtle, calculating siren who delights to prey on the souls of men. The jou…

'The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation - to put a better face on ev…

'Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the imp…

Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

Qui depense trop n'est jamais riche.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.