The wicked are always ungrateful.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.