Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.