Vault of the Ages

Quotes

1. A world of life and mystery, a world of splendor and striving and wistful beauty. Yes, it was good to live, and even if he was now to join the sun in an endless night, he was glad of what he had been given.

   p. 149

2. 

   “So this,” he said, “is the excitement and glory of war! I’ll never believe a ballad singer again.”

   p. 74

3. 

   “Peace,” he added, “is kept by the good will and strength of the peaceful.”

   p. 160

4. 

   What was right? A man should live justly—but too often it was hard to say which was the road of justice. At any rate, this war was not a struggle of evil against good, black against white; it was a fight between many human beings, none of whom was wholly bad or wholly good.

   p. 99

5. 

   “I wonder if there are any gods at all—if they aren’t just another story.”

   Tom and Owl shrank from him. But no lightning struck.

   p. 78

6. 

   There was a huge sadness in it—the little men of today, gnawing apart the mighty works they no longer understood. In a few hundred years, or a few thousand, what did it matter? Nothing would be left, nothing but rubble and waving grass and the wild dogs howling where men had once lived.

   p. 20

7. 

   His will grew tight again. This was no age for weaklings. You had to do whatever seemed best, without letting gods or men or the lower devils deter you.

   p. 125

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