"I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself--whether it be the nobles, the clergy,..."
- Rafael Sabatini
"It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous."
"With you it is always the law, never equity."
"What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward."
"Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and should continue to be one of the most valued and valuable expressions of the ..."
"Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general ins..."
"Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness."
"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."