A closed mouth catches no flies.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

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

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.