To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

- Jose Bergamin

Happiness is always a coincidence.

- Jose Bergamin

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

- Jose Bergamin

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

- Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

- Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

- Jose Bergamin

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

- Jose Bergamin