I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

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

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.