“But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. "Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on these other ships.”

“But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. "Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on these other ships.”

“Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.”

“Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.”

“It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.”

“I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.”

“We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.”

“As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.”

“What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes do - leave one of your kind in the jungle to die if it suited your whim to go elsewhere.If you are a man, you will return to protect your kind. You will not run away from one of your own people, because one has run away from you.”

“They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.”

“To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.”

“He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.”