The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.