I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.

All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.

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

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

Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?

When arms speak, the laws are silent.

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

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

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

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

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

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

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