"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."

"A truly popular man is a man who knows nothing about art, and whose brain is as soft as his heart."

"I am not a man of action, but a man of words."

"The very rich are no longer content with their money; they are getting to be proud of their virtues."