“This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.”

“Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? and a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o'erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung tha...”

“He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. ...”

“Surely time past is gone by like a shadow.”

“Surely, he said, the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdoms fount. They are deep in time. They...”

“These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.”

“When flash of hope scans through your dreams. When news of goodness skims the surface of your expectations and bravery abates, break not, keep pressing less the dreams of your fingers suffer extinc...”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“And we mustn't lose our sense of humor," Mrs. Which said. "The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”

“Your heart swallowed me like a well and I will never be able to climb out. I fell. I fell into your infinity. And my inability to free myself will doom your life.”

“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”

“I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom...”

“What's meant to be will always find a way”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”

“Maybe there isnt such a thing as fate. Maybe its just the opportunities were given, and what we do with them. Im beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances dont just happen. We have to make...”