there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

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

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.