I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.