If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.