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He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.

We’ve become a race of engineers. What we never seem to understand is that after it’s time to railroad, there’s time to build a beautiful railroad. The state of the art has advanced enough; we can afford to pay a small penalty in efficiency.

It was not pleasant to admit what one is willing to do to go on living.

I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.

Paradox is the inevitable forerunner of chaos.

“Isn’t there anything you can do about the predator?” Carmody asked.

“Nothing. Nor would I if I could. Predation is a necessary circumstance. Even the Gods are eventually eaten by Fate. You will not be an exception to the universal rule.”

“Now look,” Janice said. “If the king is so rich, why can’t he pay?”

“The king never pays for anything he can get free,” the ferra said. “That’s why he’s so rich.”

“You want me to tell you why reality is the way it is,” Seethwright said. “But there is no explanation for that. You must simply learn to fit your preconceptions to what you find. You must not expect reality to adapt itself to you, except very infrequently.

And I had done an hellish thing,

And it would work 'em woe:

For all averred, I had killed the bird

That made the breeze to blow.

Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,

That made the breeze to blow!

How nicely you put it! We may rant against fortune and the world, but we are left at the end with the stark proposition: “These are the things which are.”

Instead of the cross, the Albatross

About my neck was hung.