cuente vuesa merced su historia como debe, que ya sabe que toda comparación es odiosa, y, así, no hay para qué comparar a nadie con nadie. - Miguel de Cervantes

"By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about." "This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian," said Sancho; "for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself."

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.