When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

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

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he