El arte de amar

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

Amor

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Paz

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Imaginación

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real lives.

Vivir

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Libre

Others indeed may talk, write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward presence to it, but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

De la felicidad

A benefit should be kept like a buried treasure, only to be dug up in necessity...Nature bids us to do well by all...Wherever there is a human being, we have an opportunity for kindness.

La República

The greatest price of refusing to participate in politics is being governed by your inferiors.

Vida

Life is like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.