Scraps thought it was odd that they could be so easily amused, but decided there could be little harm in people who laughed so merrily. - L. Frank Baum

"You people with hearts" he said "have something to guide you and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much"

The nomes are immortal; that is, they do not perish, as mortals do, unless they happen to come in contact with an egg. If an egg touches them — either the outer shell or the inside of the egg — the nomes lose their charm of perpetual life and thereafter are liable to die through accident or old age, just as all humans are.

And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.