Might does not make right! Right makes right!

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

Only fools want to be great.

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

There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.