It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.
Mary StewartThere are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
Mary StewartIt does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
Mary Stewart