"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"