A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.

The course of true love never die run smooth

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

I love this script [The Hollars] because I'm lucky enough to come from a really tightknit family.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."