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

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Having a head is not enough, you must get ahead

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I have always been a pencil.

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He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.