Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.