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

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.