“The symbologist made a cryptic sign. "That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.”

“I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.”

“We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any.”

“Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.”

“Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.”

“Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.”

“The Silver Samarsanda stood above the Jardeen, behind a line of tall pencil cypress: an irregular bulk of masonry, plastered and whitewashed, with a wide, many-slanted roof of mossy tiles. Beside the entrance five colored lanterns hung in a vertical line: deep green, a dark, smoky scarlet, a gay light green, violet, and once more dark scarlet; and at the bottom, slightly to the side, a small, steady yellow lamp, the purport of all being: Never neglect the wonder of conscious existence, which too soon comes to an end!”