Tomás de Iriarte

"Dress does not give knowledge."

"Perdonadme, sutiles y altas Musas, Las que hacéis vanidad de ser confusas. Os puedo yo decir con mejor modo Que sin la claridad os falta todo?"

"Guarde para su regalo Esta sentencia un autor; Si el sabio no aprueba, malo! Si el necio aplaude, peor!"

"Thus, might I drop into an authors ear A piece of counsel, I would say, "Be sure, Whateer you write, to keep your meaning clear; For dulness only ever is obscure. — Rockliff"

"Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material."

"The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad."