The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

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

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

When in doubt, lean to the side of #‎ mercy .

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.