Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

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

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark