True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

It requires a long time to know anyone.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.