If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.