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.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.