I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.