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.

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

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

A crier of green sauce.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.