The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.