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.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

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