Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them