They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if… — Rafael Sabatini

You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion—the noblest religion any man could have to guide him.