From the Bookshelf of The Dusty Bookshelf…

In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.

-Cervantes, (translated by Edith Grossman). Don Quixote (p. 21). 

“Censuring is what you should say,” said Don Quixote, “and not sentencing, you corrupter of good language, may God confound you!”

- Cervantes (translated by Edith Grossman). Don Quixote (p. 579). 

...move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.

-Cervantes, (translated by Edith Grossman). Don Quixote (p. 8). 

..achieve the greatest goal of any writing, which, as I have said, is to teach and delight at the same time.

-Cervantes, (translated by Edith Grossman). Don Quixote (p. 414).