“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

“The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.”

“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”

“Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”

“What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

“In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.”