Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.