D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.