H. Rider Haggard

". . . is there anything so mighty as water in the world, I wonder"

"You may all have noticed that however piously disposed, there is a point at which the majority of women become very practical indeed."

"So kick away the burning sticks from beneath the water of your anger and let it cease from boiling, and go forth as you have promised, to see wonderful things and do wonderful deeds and snatch the pure and innocent out of the hands of evil gods or men."

"Never before was there such a sudden disrobement of an ecclesiastical dignitary draped in all his trappings."

". . . these priests, after the fashion of priests all the world over, now aspired to the absolute rule of the race"

"Human nature does not change, Allan, and wine and women are ancient snares."

". . . there is a way out of most difficulties if only it can be hit upon."

"The moths are few that fear the flame, but those are the moths which live."

". . . all joy grows from the root of pain."

". . . what a man believes is true for him and will certainly befall. If it were otherwise, what is the use of faith which in a thousand forms supports our race and holds it from the horrors of the Pit? Only those who believe nothing inherit what they believe—nothing"

". . . we are all fools in our different ways, and how can any one dig out of his heart the folly that his mother put there before he was born?"

". . . all men are cowards . . . in one matter or another, though in the rest they may be brave enough."