“In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.”

“The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...”

“Seine Ehre kann auch der Arme behalten, nicht aber der Schlechte.”

“Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.”

“Your grace, come back, Señor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep !”

“In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen in the details he relates to us, for although they are trivial and inconsequential, he does not attempt to pass over them in silence; his example could be followed by solemn historians who recount actions so briefly and succinctly that we can barely taste them, and leave behind in the inkwell, through carelessness, malice, or ignorance, the most substantive part of the work.”

“Here lies a gentleman boldWho was so very braveHe went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the graveDeath had on him no hold.By the world he set small store--He frightened it to the core--Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,Though he'd lived a crazy man,When he died he was sane once more.”