One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Give the devil his due.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.