“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

“Now here is a riddle,” Melisandre said. “A clever fool and a foolish wise man.”

“It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.”

“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”

“He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.”

“The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight.”

“What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!”