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

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

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

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.

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

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