The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.