I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.