Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.