For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

There's no love lost between us.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.