I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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

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

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.

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.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.