There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.