The Phoenix and the Mirror

These precautions, perhaps because they had been taken, proved unnecessary.

But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.

Hmm...hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.

Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it.

The ceremony was long and intricate, probably none of them could have explained why half of it was done, and the explanations for the other half would probably have been thoroughly incorrect.

Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.

It is not in the nature of any people that it should willingly endure being ruled by another people, whether it is ruled ill or ruled well.

Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.