Old age and youth cannot live together.
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
Strange is the influence of Marx on character.
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic