"Too much sanity may be madness — and the maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be."

"For the love of God, gentlemen, let us not be so foolish as to believe that this world is a carnival, and that we are here to eat and drink and be merry."

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."

"The greatest madness a man can commit in this life is to let himself die without being killed by anyone, or without being killed by his own hand, only by melancholy."

"There are only two families in the world: the Haves and the Have-Nots."