“ I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself--whether it be the nobles, the clergy,… Rafael Sabatini
“ I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized. Rafael Sabatini
“ Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness. Rafael Sabatini
“ Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general ins… Rafael Sabatini
“ Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and should continue to be one of the most valued and valuable expressions of the… Rafael Sabatini
“ It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous. Rafael Sabatini
“ To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned soc… Rafael Sabatini
“ You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind. Rafael Sabatini
“ We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose. Rafael Sabatini
“ Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study o… Rafael Sabatini
“ Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it. Rafael Sabatini
“ Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence. Rafael Sabatini
“ And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard a… Rafael Sabatini
“ But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great l… Rafael Sabatini
