Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.