Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaSpeak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaIf a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaDreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca