💬 Quotes

"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"

"Marriage had enchanted her; but the spell was broken, the instant she had legal claims to him."

"La musique a le pouvoir mystérieux d'adoucir les âmes les plus farouches."

"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all attachments, because it is founded on principle and cemented by time."

"Contempt is not incompatible with a keen sense of injury."

"Consider whether you are not, more than men, the creatures of prejudice."

"The civilization of an age is measured by the degree of respect paid to the female sex."

"Your wealth is too near to you. You are looking right over it; and you are looking over it because you have been deceived in thinking you must go somewhere else to find it."

"He who would be great among you must be the servant of all. He who would achieve success in this world must deliver that which helps his fellow men."

"The men who get rich aren't the ones who are hunting for wealth, but the ones who are seeking to serve humanity."

"To find the universal in the particular is the greatest art, and to see the marvelous in the common is the secret of success."

"Every man's natural ambition has been to get into some other sphere of work than that in which God has placed him."

"Greatness consists not in the holding of some future high office, but in the doing of ordinary things extraordinarily well right where you are."

"In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth and power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence."

"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. As wealth accumulates, his burden of ostentation is increasingly shifted to the shoulders of the wife and other members of his household."

"The institution of a leisure class has arisen as one of the sequence of economic development in which the primary differentiation is the division of labor between the sexes."

"The quasi-peaceable method of getting goods is emulation; that is, by acquiring wealth through competitive displays of financial strength, leading to pecuniary canons of taste."

"Institutions are of the nature of prevailing habits of thought with respect to particular relations and particular functions of the individual and of the community."

"The utility of consumption as an evidence of wealth is to be classed as a derivative utility. It does not rest on the immediate capacity of the goods consumed to satisfy human needs."

"He who knows that power is from within will boldly draw on his own interior resources and will not be anxious as to outcomes."