Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.

If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.