Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

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

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

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.