The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

"I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse."

I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart.

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."

whistling in the air from the south, and as they turn

every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.

"There is only one thing in the world I am afraid of."

"What is that?" asked Dorothy; "the Munchkin farmer who made you?"

"No," answered the Scarecrow; "it's a lighted match."

"Don't mind Mr. Joker," said the Princess to Dorothy. "He is considerably cracked in his head, and that makes him foolish."

As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done? It was easy to make the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodman happy, because they imagined I could do anything.