Miguel De Cervantes

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Where there's music there can be no evil.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

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

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

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

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

He that gives quickly gives twice.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.