The little birds have God for their caterer.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued