Comparisons are odious.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

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

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.