From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

Hungry bellies have no cars. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.