There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

Facts are the enemy of truth.