Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.