Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.