If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it. Discourses

I was growing inward incessantly; like an animal that hibernates during the wintertime, I could hear other peoples' voices with my ears; my own voice, however, I could hear only in my throat. The loneliness and the solitude that lurked behind me were like a condensed, thick, eternal night, like one of those nights with a dense, persistent, sticky darkness which waits to pounce on unpopulated cities filled with lustful and vengeful dreams. The Blind Owl

Delay always breeds danger. Don Quixote

H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn