Captain from Castile Quotes

“Time heals wounds, my dear; it cannot rub out scars.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

“Because the zest of life is effort, my son, not attainment.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain From Castile: The Best-Selling Historical Epic

“He who does not look forward remains behind.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

“Pedro de Vargas, who had a respectful fondness for music and poetry but it the least skill in them, was drawn to Ortiz by the law of opposites and sought him out with the reverence of the untalented for the artist.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

“What we cannot cure we must endure.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

“Tenochtitlán, the once-magnificent, fell to Cortés. It lay, a heap of ruins, a charnel-house containing thousands of unburied corpses. Its overthrow was a masterpiece of military genius, valor, and enterprise. Everyone knew that it would take its place among immortal deeds of arms and felt proud to have had a share in it. Too bad that the once-glittering Valley with its palaces, gardens, cities, and temples had been laid waste, but such was war.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain From Castile: The Best-Selling Historical Epic