Necessity urges desperate measures.

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

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.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.