"Y así, enfermos, ojo alerta y ningún médico admitan; mueran de gorra sin dar un real a la medicina."

"Ribas wrote under the most favourable circumstances and made good use of his opportunities."

"His reputation as an historian rests secure upon his history of the Jesuit missions of Mexico."

"La parladura Francesca val mais et [es] plus avinenz a far romanz e pasturellas; mas cella de Lemozin val mais per fa…"

"There is not in the circle of human happiness a cup of honey that has not its drop of gall."

"In our poor human nature, joy and sorrow often manifest themselves by the same symptoms; and a piece of good news wil…"

"In his short tales he is most successful when he indulges in the sentimental; he is less attractive when he gives utt…"

"To boast of the help you gave a brother in need is to cancel the good of your deed."

""Be glad," she said, "God brought you to fifty years in your world"— but didn't know there's no division between, as …"

"The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose."