I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

Art is a picture of the spirit.

A man can smell a woman's sadness

It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

The seeker is that which is being sought.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.