It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.

You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.