"God commands us to go to church and rise early and the glutton saith, “I must sleep. I was drunk yesterday. The churc…"

"Item, one may know whether a coney be fatted, by feeling his sinew or neck betwixt the two shoulders for there you ma…"

"The book well deserves translation into English ... [it] is full of interest of all kinds to the Englishman as well a…"

"Over all the matter-of-fact counsels there seems to hang something of the mellow sadness of an autumn evening, when b…"

"My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning."

"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. …"

"Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived."

"Behold," he said, "all the wings of the air shall come to you, and they and the winds and the stars shall be like rel…"

"Then a song of power came to me and I sang it there in the midst of that terrible place where I was. It went like this:"

"Then a Voice said: "Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see…"