It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

The priest must teach the people, the fear of God.

If you refuse to practice run today, it will make harder to practice it tomorrow

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.