Author Quotes

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.