“La amistad puede convertirse en amor. El amor en amistad. . .nunca.”

“Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”

“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.”

“The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”