It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.

What is so certain of victory as patience?

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

More die in flight than in battle.

If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.