There is no love lost between us.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

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

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.