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.

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

I drink for the thirst to come.

Appetite comes with eating.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

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.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.