Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Miguel de CervantesI have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de CervantesLet everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
Miguel de CervantesTranslating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
Miguel de Cervantes