Who can put a spoke into the wheel of fortune?
Women are in the main, an indispensable accident to men.
It is better for a man to do a rash act, than a cowardly one.
The Knight of La Mancha said: «It is a common adage, fair lady, that diligence is the mother of success.»
The highest poetical sentiments are found in the people, and in that part of the people who are called ignorant and uncultivated, who cannot express their thoughts with as much elegance as sincerity; the people, finally, who in Spain, as Trueba observes, describe the mother of Jesus as «the Mother of the Beautiful Love.»
Those persons who allow their tongues to run at random, are often more fools than knaves.