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.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.