No clock is more regular than the belly.

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.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

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

I build only living stones--men.

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