I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

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

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

The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.

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.