Quotes from Benjamin Thorpe

A foolish man is all night awake, pondering over everything; he than grows tired; and when morning comes, all is lament as before.

A cowardly man thinks he will ever live, if warfare he avoids; but old age will give him no peace, though spears may spare him.

I know that I hung On a wind-rocked tree Nine whole nights, With a spear wounded, And to Odin offered Myself to myself; On that tree Of which no one knows From what root it springs.