No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.