"Other things than to fight, there is, even for dragons." — John Wyndham

"I guess——" she said, wistfully—"I guess the only thing that's wrong with children is that they grow up to be people like you."

Sooner or later the amateur always overreaches himself.

"I suppose one could scarcely have had innocence and experience. Being young is very exhausting and unsatisfactory, really—although it looks so nice."