Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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.
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.