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

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.