"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

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.

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.