Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

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

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.