Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

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

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.