"Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right."

"There is little difference between sacrifice and work. They are also both uniquely human. Sometimes, animal…"

"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the mean…"

"Oh, Richard!" exclaimed she, on one occasion, "if you would but dismiss such gloomy subjects from your mind…"

"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."

"Your hand on his arm, the hay stack charm around your neck, strung out and thin, calling some friend trying…"

"Tertiary syphilis, as my readers will not need reminding perhaps, comes, when it comes at all, about ten ye…"