Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

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

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

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

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.