Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Book IV

I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State. the Revolt of the Masses

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. Le Pere Goriot