It had not been precisely a fruitful meeting, but it had been a long one. - Avram Davidson

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.

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

And then in that, admittedly magnificent, abrupt moment you saw what I concede without argument was the face of rather an attractive wench, and—Zeus! you weren’t thinking, man—you were simply reacting. It wasn’t your heart, it was your codpiece that the impulse came from!