“For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.”

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”

“Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.”

“Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.”

“Some Churches are heated and cooled 365 days a year. As homeless soldiers lay in alleys and bushes quite near.”