You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant qu'on vous esorche.]

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.