History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Miguel de CervantesRiches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Miguel de Cervantes'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Miguel de Cervantes