"And lo! the creature did work slow in the brain."

"I am not at sea because I object to bad treatment, poor food, poor wages, and worse prospects. I am not at sea becaus…"

"Another vast space went by, and the whole enormous flame had sunk to a deep, copper color. Gradually, it darkened, fr…"

"And, as doth be human, I brake my rule straightway in the beginning."

"I saw many creatures that went about the fire, and did have warmth from the fire and drink from the spring; and surel…"

"And, surely, this doth seem but a sane thinking unto me; but yet without proof, and to be said to you, only as the sh…"

"We truly to think that the world doth even now be old; and this to have seemed a true thing unto every age that ever …"

"And truly, I to hope that I have made this thing somewise clear unto you; for, indeed, it doth be something hard to s…"

"And mayhap there to be no mystery in the thing; but a score of natural explainings, if that I did know, or had patien…"

"Yet, even did it be ever proved that Man once to be a fish, I to have no cause to abate the first part of mine argume…"