Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.

Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.

Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.