إذا قلت إننى لم أعد أفكر بها أكون كاذبا .. ولكنى من أولئك الذين يمضون بالقطيعة والبغضاء إلى أقصى حدودهما. - Alexandre Dumas fils

Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

That world begins where the lawful wife finishes; it finishes where the venal wife begins. It is divided from the world of honest women by the public scandal it provokes; it is divided from the world of courtesans by money.

Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.