You see they are very small, but so they shall serve my purpose the better.

Will each of you take one and retire from the table and write upon it the thing he most desires?
Now, my dear friends, brevity is ever as the point of the lance.

Wit is blunt and Truth half armed without it.

I lay a test upon you." All retired quickly, and, soon returning, dropped their wishes in the box.

The playful emperor closed and shook it and withdrew a disk.
"I find here the word 'preference,'" said he, and all observed that his keen eyes were calmly measuring the prince Antipater.