What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.