“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
“You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.”
“There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.”
“Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.”
“Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.”
“Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.”