I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Dine on little, and sup on less.