All rich men are the enemies of democracy.

If they pretend that they are not, they are hypocrites; if they believe they are not, it is because they haven't come to a correct understanding of themselves.

The meanest difference that can exist between men is the difference that money makes.

There is some compassion in an intellectual difference, and even in a difference of birth there is some little atonement to be expected, but a moneyed difference is stiff with unyielding brutality." In this opinion they struck a sort of agreement, but they soon fell apart, and they wrangled until they reached a place where their pathway split.

They halted for a moment; they had been fierce in argument.