No hay peor ciego que el que no quiere ver.

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Children are not just miniature adults; they have their own way of seeing and understanding the world.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."