Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.