Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

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

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.