An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

Inspiration gives no warnings.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.