“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

“Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.”

“The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.”

“As regards your government of yourself and your household, Sancho, my first piece of advice is to be clean and to cut your fingernails, and not to let them grow long, as some people do, moved by ignorance to believe that long nails make their hand look beautiful, as if those appendages, those excrescences that they leave uncut have any right to be called fingernails at all, because they are more like talons of a kestrel: a monstrous and filthy abuse.”

“...for hope is always born at the same time as love...”

“Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”