"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."

"Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves."

"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."

"Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard."

"Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq."

"I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them."

"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."

"In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath."

"The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones."

"The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment."