Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.