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.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.