I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected with yourself.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

Google never knew how successful key words would be.