Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.