“Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.”

“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 am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.”

“I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.”

“My talismans are not obviously useless.”

“I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.”

“Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.”