My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''

All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness. He is mad in patches, full of lucid intervals.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. [Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]

Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]