No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

Where one door shuts another opens.

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

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.