"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."

"I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life."

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."

"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."