So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

A crier of green sauce.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

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

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 said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.