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

No clock is more regular than the belly.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

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.

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

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

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.