The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.