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

God helps everyone with what is his own.

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 reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

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