There is no rule of architecture applicable to a castle in the air.
There is no better or more fortunate bond than that of being a prisoner of hope.
Our experience is composed more of lost illusions than of acquired wisdom.
Nervousness is the price you pay for being a car horse.
What fate destines cannot be avoided by man.
Praise is as good as he who says it, and as bad when he who praises it is vicious and bad.
Governments are sails, the people are the wind, the state is the ship, and the weather is the sea.
The laurels of glory never wither; they bloom in an eternal spring.
Winds and waves are ever on the side of the most skilled pilots.
Those who rule have no time of their own.
Science is a pride for how much it has learned; wisdom is humble because it knows no more.
The beautiful ideal of charity is that there are no pains, that of charity, that they are not seen.
Optimism is the doctrine or science that everything is beautiful, even ugly, that everything is good, especially what is bad, and that everything is just, even unfair.
Prieto Figueroa says: I had to advance my youth when I started working since I was a child, and to delay my old age when I continue working for the benefit of others.
In the great clock of time, there is only one word ''Now''.
He who has no opinion of his own always contradicts others.
