It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.