For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Delay always heeds danger.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

The journey is better than the inn".

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.