People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.

a king can only work with his best tools.

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?