It is a disposition natural in women,” said Don Quixote, “to slight those who love them, and love those who hate them.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.