Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?