I do not mind your trying to tell them, if you like, but I will protect your tongues, and nothing of the secret will escape from them." It was a disappointment, but it couldn't be helped, and it cost us a sigh or two.

We talked pleasantly along, and he was always reading our thoughts and responding to them, and it seemed to me that this was the most wonderful of all the things he did, but he interrupted my musings and said: "No, it would be wonderful for you, but it is not wonderful for me.

I am not limited like you.

I am not subject to human conditions.

I can measure and understand your human weaknesses, for I have studied them; but I have none of them.