You can’t convict or even accuse a man of criminal activity just because he looks peculiar; otherwise… — Jack Vance

“My father says I have too much curiosity for my own good.”

Captain Henshaw chuckled. “He’s wrong there; too much curiosity never hurt anyone. When a boy has too little, that’s the time to start worrying.”

If the dictators and militarists who used to start wars had to earn by manual labor what their wars cost, there would have been very few wars.