She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.