Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

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.

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.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.