Quotation

Not I, for i must return to Blois. All this gilded elegance of the court, all the intrigues, disgust me. i am no longer a young man who can make his terms with the meanness of the present day. i have read in the great Book of God many things too beautiful and too comprehensive to take any interest in the little trifling phrases which these men whisper among themselves when they wish to deceive others.