God exalts the man who humbles himself.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.