Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

by Bill Dedman

“I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.”

“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”

I beg you to cultivate imagination, which means to develop your power of sympathy, and I entreat you to decide thoughtfully what makes a human being great in his time and in his station.

Sympathy, the great bond between human beings, is largely dependent on imagination—that is, upon the power of realizing the feelings and the circumstances of others so as to enable us to feel with and for them.

Andrew Carnegie’s theory was that life should be divided into three stages: education, making money, and giving all the money away.