If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.

All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.

We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

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