“In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.”

“As for time, all men have it in abundance.”

“The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.”

“Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.”

“We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.”

“Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.”

“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylo...”

“Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead, the woman said. I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.”

“... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...”

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.”

“I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”

“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”