The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.

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.

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.

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