Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.

It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.

To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.

Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?

I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.

It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.