"Read no history; nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."

"I have never been bored in my life, though I have often been boring."

"It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."