“Balderdash, I say, let the sword turn into an adder and the adder a salmon and the salmon a birch twig and birch twig a sword and the sword a tongue...Let it all run together so swiftly that it cannot be separated again...”
“Let the ideas clash, let the swords sleep!”
“Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.”
“The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”
“Mightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all.”
“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind”