Nicholas Chamfort

"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. "

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are. "

"Success produces success, just as money produces money. "

"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. "