There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.