Yes, I repeat, there is always something to be done with words, and here are thirty-two authentic words from the Master Philologist himself, not to s… - James Branch Cabell

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest....

"Well, when in Rome," said Jurgen, "one must be romantic."