That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.