A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

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

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.