Us, little children of the dust, children of a day, who with so many burdens do burden us with taking thought and with fears and desires and devious schemings of the mind, so that we wax old before our time and fall weary ere the brief day be spent and one reaping-hook gather us home at last for all our pains.

With that, the horror shut down upon Juss’s soul like madness.

A great king should rather be a dog that killeth clean, than a cat that patteth and sporteth with his prey.

Ultimate truths are to be attained, if at all, in some immediate way: by vision rather than by ratiocination.

These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate’s whipping-tops bandied what way she will.

But Gro smiled a sad smile and said, “Why should we by words of ill omen strike yet another blow where the tree tottereth?

Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? and a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o’erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung that earth that was lately shaken at his terror. I have waded in red blood to the knee; and in this hour, in my old years, the world is become for me a vision only and a mock-show.

Puffed up beyond measure is he in his own conceit, and folk say it is a grief to him that none hath been found this long while that durst wrastle with him, and wofully he pineth for the hundredth. He shall wrastle a fall with me!

Are ye ta’en with the swindle or the turn-sickness? Or are ye out of your wits?

Lightning shall be slow to my hasting.