Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

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

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.