Definite speech means clarity of mind.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."