What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.