“Where there’s music there can be no evil.”

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.