In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

In the night all cats are gray.

The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.