Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.