Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.