Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.