“The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?”

“I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! ”

“One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.”

“... así estos malévolos, mientras más estudian, peores opiniones engendran; obstrúyeseles el entendimiento con lo mismo que había de alimentarse, y es que estudian mucho y digieren poco, sin proporcionarse al vaso limitado de sus entendimientos.”

“ Y a Dios, que esto no es más dedarte la muestra del paño:si no te agrada la pieza,no desenvuelvas el fardo”

“I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.”

“Finjamos que soy feliz,triste pensamiento, un rato;quizá podréis persuadirme,aunque yo sé lo contrario...”