Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

The blood is the life!

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.