A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
Miguel de CervantesThere are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel de CervantesThe pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Miguel de Cervantes