the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.

Those who prepare for war get it.

I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.