Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1)

by David S. Brody

Many people discovered America before Columbus, but most of them had the good sense to keep quiet about it. — Oscar Wilde

The pests were just as happy to alight on the neck of a prince as on a stable boy. It was a good lesson.

“If God had meant for us to walk, he would not have given us horses, I wager.”

He had read once that God was like a mirror — the mirror never changed but the people who looked into it all saw something different. Unfortunately most people looked in and viewed their own face, confident it had been created in God’s own image.

But just because something is against the rules doesn’t make it wrong, just like because something is legal doesn’t make it right.

“I had a law professor once who used to quote Dickens, ‘Sometimes the law is an ass.’”

War was an attempt by a nation or a tribe or a religious faction to elevate itself at the expense of another. It was about power and wealth; morality rarely played a part.

As the African proverb stated, when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

As you Americans say, a lot of smoke for there not to be any fire.”

“A colleague of mine likened the study of the Templars to a kind of academic pornography. Everyone is fascinated by the subject but nobody wants to get caught with their nose in the book.”

History is not truth — it records not what occurred but what is remembered.

‘Wine is strong, a king is stronger, women are stronger still but the truth conquers all.’”

as Napoleon once famously said, never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.