In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

She was the mightiest vessel that ever sailed the seven seas.

I am a very old man; how old, I do not know.

I am a soldier, and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father.

What a splendid thing a little unpleasantness is for a man and woman!

Mars, so distant from the warm sun, is an arctic world.

So this was love! I had escaped it for all the years I had roamed the five continents and their encircling seas; not for me the rewards of that supreme idolatry.

There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.

It was the dark setting of my purpose. But for their fearsome faces, I should have sprung into their midst.

The nightmare from which she has been roused was the very recollection of my peril.

A Princess of Mars