My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.
He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.