Everyone, at some time or another, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?

The world is a great place and stocked with wealth and beauty, and there is no limit to the rewards that may be offered. Such an one who would refuse a million of money may sell his honour for an empire or the love of a woman.

"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people."