Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.

Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Such is the world that I can no longer bear to say prayers, for I am sick of speaking to the gods who choose to do nothingbut as they wish.

She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds.

It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.