Thus woman trusts in man down all the years and so, as always, is betrayed. - Michael Moorcock

You fought well and you fought for justice."
"Justice?" Hawkmoon called after him as he left the room. "Is there such a thing?"
"It can be manufactured in small quantities," Fank told him. "But we have to work hard, fight well and use great wisdom to produce just a tiny amount.

Their glory in earthly power had brought them to decadent ruin, as it brought down all empires who gloried in gold or conquest or those other ambitions which can never be satisfied but must forever be fed.

It is many years since I have wielded a weapon larger than a pen, borne anything weightier than a difficult problem in philosophy.