"Then on the River I saw the dream-built ship of the god Yoharneth-Lehai, whose great prow lifted grey into the air above the River of Silence. Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets..."
- Lord Dunsany
"I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily."
"It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came."
"Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes."