Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.