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

When arms speak, the laws are silent.

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

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

I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.

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

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

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

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

Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?

All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.

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

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