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

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

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

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.