"It is a principle of the human mind, that the more we have, the more we want."

"I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation."

"I am convinced that nothing has effectually suffered in the world but for want of money."

"I have no patience with people who are always complaining about everything."

"There are very few people, I imagine, who have not, at some time or other, been in love with some object or other."