I see that you will make a competent inspector after all. You have a natural bent for subterfuge and deceit. — Jack Vance

“The idea has the virtue of simplicity,” said Nai the Hever gravely. “I confess that it had not occurred to me. I am always reluctant to pull on strings until I learn where they lead and to what they are attached.”

Experience is the only source of wisdom: by which I mean, the competent conduct of life.

An idea of great merit! 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.