Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

This meeting is of significance and importance,