A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

¡La importancia! ¿Es nada, por ventura? La importancia es el respeto de los necios, el pasmo de los niños, la envidia de los ricos y el desprecio del sabio.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.