“Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.”

“Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.”

“The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from the gate; and, when his presence is required, it is only necessary to unlock the gate and call his name.”

“I become drunk as circumstances dictate.”

“Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.”

“Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.”

“One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.”