Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.