The Emperor's state is always magnificent - L. Frank Baum

Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another.

described as a horrible, cruel and remorseless grizzly, whose only business in life is to eat up little girls — shoes, dresses, ribbons and all! And then, the author says, I smack my lips and glory in my wickedness.