It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France, and all the Nine Worthies as well.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.