A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.