Between two stools one sits on the ground.

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

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

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

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.