My health is proof against accidents.

Ah! where money is concerned, you have no idea how far my indifference goes.

It is not a virtue with me, it is an infirmity; it is because of my nationality, because I am my father's son.

I feel myself incapable of thinking of the future, of practising thoroughly French habits of economy.

If my purse is full, I soon empty it; after which I condemn myself to privations--no, that does not express it--I enjoy them.