r he may be.

Modesty is as becoming a knight-errant as courage.

The master is respected in proportion to the discretion and
good breeding of his servants.

Who sets up for a talker and a wit, sinks at the first trip
into a contemptible buffoon.

The weapons of gownsmen, like those of women, are their
tongues.

Keep company with the good, and you will be one of them.

Not where you were born, but where you were bred.

Well sheltered shall he be
Who leans against a sturdy tree.

An affront must come from a person who not only gives it,
but who can maintain it when it is given; an injury may come
from any hand.

He who can receive no affront can give none.

One must live long to see much.

He who lives long; must suffer much.

To deprive a knight-errant of his mistress is to rob him of
the eyes with which he sees, the sun by which he is
enlightened, and the support by which he is maintained. I
have many times said, and now I repeat the observation, that
a knight-errant without a mistress is like a tree without
leaves, a building without cement, and a shadow without the
substance by which it is produced.

Possessing beauty without blemish, dignity without pride,
love with modesty, politeness springing from courtesy, and
courtesy from good breeding, and, finally, of illustrious
descent: for the beauty that is of a noble race shines with
more splendor than that which is meanly born.

Virtue ennobles blood, and a virtuous person of humble birth
is more estimable than a vicious person of rank.

I must inform your graces that Sancho Panza is one of the
most pleasant squires that ever served a knight-errant.
Sometimes his simplicity is so arch, that to consider
whether he is more fool or wag yields abundance of pleasure.
He has roguery enough to pass for a knave, and absurdities
sufficient to confirm him a fool. He doubts everything and
believes everything; and often, when I think he is going to
discharge nonsense, he will utter apothegms that will raise
him to the skies. In a word, I would not exchange him for
any other squire, even with a city to boot; and therefore I
am in doubt whether or not it will be expedient to send him
to that government which your grace has been so good as to
bestow upon him, although I can perceive in him a certain
aptitude for such an office; so that, when his understanding
is a very