We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.