There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

Thank you for nothing.

The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.