Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.