She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.