Retribution

"God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe."

"Retribution—ah, my friend, retribution is the sweetest of all sweet dark dreams."

"Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others."

"To be left alone And face to face with my own crime, had been Just retribution."

"Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces!"

"I must confess that my estimate of Lovecraft would not have pleased his most ardent admirers. The view I expressed in that book was that, while Lovecraft was distinctly a creative genius in his own way, his pessimism should not be taken too seriously; that it was the pessimism of a sick recluse, and had about it an element of rassentiment, a kind of desire to take revenge on the world that rejected him. In short, Lovecraft was a 19th century romantic, born in the wrong time. Most men of genius dislike their own age, but the really great ones impose their own vision on the age. The weak ones turn away into a world of gloomy fantasy."

"The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely."

"The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength."

"Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est."

"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."

"Lento quidem gradu ad vindictam divina procedit ira, sed tarditatem supplicii gravitate compensat."

"But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at duck or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over."