By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.