I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Only one thing is more admirable than the admirable reply of the Saxon king: that an Icelander, a man of the lineage of the vanquished, has perpetuated the rep…

The Way is shown in five books concerning different aspects. These are Ground, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void. The body of the Way of strategy from the viewpoint …

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, t…