"The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People'; and the Milky Way they thought was the path along which the ..."
- Hope Mirrlees
"As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in just such a way, and seen and heard the very same things tha..."
"It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy."
"So fine a medicine is the will to action."
"A bad conscience makes a very good ghost."
"There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense."
"But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!"
"Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative."
"Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action."
"Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones."