To suffer for the sake of peace the heavy chain of unlucky union, may be honorable, virtuous and grand; but is not always advisable.
A place is great—as for instance Madrid—when, since childhood, have prayed in its temples men like Lope de Vega, Calderon and Cervantes; when it has given to science many noble names, and to independence many brave martyrs.
Put a copper coin into vinegar and it will become oxidized; put the same coin into oil, and it will become clear and brilliant. How plain the moral of this is.
A good and pleasant consort is a treasure that we ought not to rid ourselves of for a caprice.
Two hearts can never be very far apart if they have once been really united by Love.