...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.

Might does not make right! Right makes right!

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

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