All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
Thank you for nothing.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
As ill-luck would have it.
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope.
Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
With life many things are remedied.
Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
Love not what you are but only what you may become.
That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.