There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.