“Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?”

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

“To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling”

“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”

“The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.”

“There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.”